It depends on where you are applying. Applying to a fortune 500 company, yes, you need a monkey-suit. Applying to a small, young startup...you might actually be better off in dress casual.
If there's a recruiter involved, you'll see a lot of this. Last time I was looking, I told every damn recruiter that I would not commute outside a certain area. This included San Jose, where a lot of jobs are. I can't count how many times recruiters tried to get me interviews to places there.
The other reason for inflexability is the old "I've got a job but want a better one" syndrome.
The thing is that it isn't fair. They are the ones with the job. Your the one who wants the job. If you want them to give you something, you've got to lay their game.
Windows jobs often ask for experience for products just released because Microsoft sends so much of its crap out in beta release programs. Lots of people had a year of C# experience the day it was officially released.
The key to getting the interview is having a resume (and cover letter) stand out. You don't stand out if you send exactly the same thing as everyone else.
Bush, however, obviously hasn't, as "The Case for Mars" calls for avoiding any Moon or orbital bases and for going straight to Mars. Bush is calling for a moonbase specifically as a stepping stone for Mars, something "The Case for Mars" argues against.
Bush is not funding NASA enough to get men to Mars. The net result of Bush's announcement will likely be to take money from basic science programs like this to fund programs that won't result in much of anything. We've already seen that Hubble will come down a year early because of Bush's Mars program, yet he wants to spend 12 billion doing what the experts say will cause at least twenty times that.
Remember that joe consumer doesn't care about that. Joe consumer just wants to take pictures of his kids birthday party.
You are right that it will be a long, long time before real photographers use digital. But I believe that we are only a few years before the bulk of consumer photography is digital.
What is really tolling the death-knoll of film-based cameras for the general consumer is the entry of stores like Whalgreens, Costco and Walmart into the digital "development" market. When a digital camera required a computer and photo printer to produce photos you could hold, they didn't make financial sense for a lot of people. But now that you can "develop" a digital picture at the local drugstore for around twenty-five cents, digital cameras suddenly become economically competitive for the consumer taking snapshots.
It's also the kind of bird. Not many people run into golden eagles with their cars and somehow I doubt little snookums the housecat is going to take out a red-tailed hawk. But the thing is that in a typical ecology, there are going to be hundreds of sparrows/whatever for each raptor. A few golden eagle deaths is a bigger ecological problem than a lot of little tiny bird deaths.
It's kind of like saying that we don't need to protect the manatee, because far more salmon die every year.
And if you are someone supporting a couple kids and a wife on your income in an economy that sucks when your previously decent company is bought by scumbags? You should just quit?
Not every employee has the option of just quitting. Many have other important responsibilities.
I wouldn't trust any OS with voting. I don't care what OS. I've worked on far too many systems, and seen how easy it would be to tamper with any system.
Voting is one thing that should not be automated. Sometimes simpler (and manual) is better.
I own the work in question. My wonderful wife bought it for me a few Christmases back. It is basically just a set of jpgs, one per page, with an electronic index and table of contents thrown over the top.
That depends...as a jogger, the real question is whether this device is solid state or harddrive based. I've never been willing to trust a hard drive to last while running.
It has little to do with bulk. I've run with things as large as an iPod. I'm just afraid that a few months of the bouncing would cause a hard drive failure. It's why I haven't gotten one.
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Make a difference!? I've got 4700 songs on my "like 'em enough to bring to work" list.
Because, of course, employers know that no one ever lied on a resume, and that if you say that you are a C++ ubergeek, you therefore must be one.
It may be different for other languages, but for C++ at least, you can't expect to be productive until you've been using it for six months.
I proofread when I want something important, like a job. I don't bother when I don't want anything, like, say, when I post a comment to a website.
It depends on where you are applying. Applying to a fortune 500 company, yes, you need a monkey-suit. Applying to a small, young startup...you might actually be better off in dress casual.
If there's a recruiter involved, you'll see a lot of this. Last time I was looking, I told every damn recruiter that I would not commute outside a certain area. This included San Jose, where a lot of jobs are. I can't count how many times recruiters tried to get me interviews to places there.
The other reason for inflexability is the old "I've got a job but want a better one" syndrome.
The thing is that it isn't fair. They are the ones with the job. Your the one who wants the job. If you want them to give you something, you've got to lay their game.
Windows jobs often ask for experience for products just released because Microsoft sends so much of its crap out in beta release programs. Lots of people had a year of C# experience the day it was officially released.
The key to getting the interview is having a resume (and cover letter) stand out. You don't stand out if you send exactly the same thing as everyone else.
Bush, however, obviously hasn't, as "The Case for Mars" calls for avoiding any Moon or orbital bases and for going straight to Mars. Bush is calling for a moonbase specifically as a stepping stone for Mars, something "The Case for Mars" argues against.
See here.
Bush is not funding NASA enough to get men to Mars. The net result of Bush's announcement will likely be to take money from basic science programs like this to fund programs that won't result in much of anything. We've already seen that Hubble will come down a year early because of Bush's Mars program, yet he wants to spend 12 billion doing what the experts say will cause at least twenty times that.
That's one of the main reasons I haven't bought an iPod. None are big enough.
It also has to survive both the G-forces of launch and landing and radiation levels far above what is seen on Earth.
Remember that joe consumer doesn't care about that. Joe consumer just wants to take pictures of his kids birthday party.
You are right that it will be a long, long time before real photographers use digital. But I believe that we are only a few years before the bulk of consumer photography is digital.
What is really tolling the death-knoll of film-based cameras for the general consumer is the entry of stores like Whalgreens, Costco and Walmart into the digital "development" market. When a digital camera required a computer and photo printer to produce photos you could hold, they didn't make financial sense for a lot of people. But now that you can "develop" a digital picture at the local drugstore for around twenty-five cents, digital cameras suddenly become economically competitive for the consumer taking snapshots.
My Gord, it is true about what they say about slashbots and real lives.
It's kind of like saying that we don't need to protect the manatee, because far more salmon die every year.
Not every employee has the option of just quitting. Many have other important responsibilities.
Voting is one thing that should not be automated. Sometimes simpler (and manual) is better.
I own the work in question. My wonderful wife bought it for me a few Christmases back. It is basically just a set of jpgs, one per page, with an electronic index and table of contents thrown over the top.
Definitely. I've had one of their laptop bags for over three years, have used it daily since I got it, and it is still in near perfect condition.
A 16k Commodore Pet with a tape drive. I loved that thing.
That depends...as a jogger, the real question is whether this device is solid state or harddrive based. I've never been willing to trust a hard drive to last while running.
It has little to do with bulk. I've run with things as large as an iPod. I'm just afraid that a few months of the bouncing would cause a hard drive failure. It's why I haven't gotten one.
That's why I mentioned "Starship Troopers". It was introduced so subtly that many readers miss it. (Obviously including the people who did the movie.)
What, for "Most overhyped halfway decent suspence novel"?