You want to know who "BOUGHT" him? Take a look and while you're at it, go look at the RIAA. You know how much they gave him? Precisely ZILCH. Their members did, though. A total of $5,250. I bet he's really shaking to repay that favor.
Seriously, if "doing HTML" is the only skill someone has to offer, they do not command enough to warrant a title other than slapping the word "Assistant" ahead of the title of their direct supervisor. Since even that may be vastly overstating the truth, simply "Administrative Assistant" with "HTML skills" in the job description has more than sufficed for the better part of the last decade.
What's the point of getting more specific than that when there is in fact nothing more to specify?
The problem here is that the scale involved is enormous. One day of an average hurricane releases roughly the energy equivalent of an entire year of electrical consumption...for the entire planet.
With a craptastic website worse than a 9th-grader's MySpace page and a/. story with a solitary link to !@#$ing Engadget, the actual product is sure to be chock full of quality.
Lack of experience in a given field at 35 will hurt you far more than lack of a degree. If you have neither, yes, you're competing with 19yos who will work for probably a fraction what you will, or at least that is the perception.
If you can, try to find 'your field' that the last 20 years backs up and gradually migrate to IT. Study formally or informally as you see fit, but your real problem is in appearing to be starting from square one. Find your 'domain knowledge' and move toward IT and you'll be able to compete with mere CS grads who haven't a clue about the broader implications of their work and often that is more important than the minutiae of An undergrad CS degree.
It's pretty doubtful that "we all know what it means." It's not a simple paradox, though it was insightfully lampooned by Bugs Bunny. It's basicaly about infinite division...and, as adequately pointed out by Bugs, this:
"In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead."
--Aristotle, Physics VI
It has nothing whatever to do with taking naps, though most people think it is and nothing more.
Hopefully, you have a relatively coherent background that is focused in some way. "IT/Programming" is a HUGE field. You can't really just get an "IT job" of any sort of quality. I mean, programming WHAT? Recipe apps for iPhones or reactor controls for ballastic missile submarines?
Think of this as changing your _role_ in your existing field rather than changing fields entirely. Hiring managers will be far more likely to listen to you if you present yourself as a seasoned professional in a specific field who is willing to expand their responsibilities, rather than a Johnny-come-lately with little to no skills and zero relevance.
I don't mind uninsured motorists and, face it, there will _always_ be uninsured motorists -- not least because of the droves with insurance who have a lapse due to bureaucratic technicalities. Besides, you msot likely have insurance to cover your damages when they can't. With the police by default assigning 50/50 guilt outside of one party doing 100 in a school zone, it's generally sort of pointless to bother thinking about the other person's insurance anyway. You both get nailed on you collision line and if the other guy doesn't have it, tough.
The only time uninsured motorists are a personal problem is when you yourself are uninsured or underinsured and want to bleed the other guy's insurance dry. Unless he _really_ screwed up and was 100% at fault, that's generally not going to happen anyway, so, basically, stop worrying about it and enjoy the fact that you're covered.
Back when Chapman University ran it, we called it "The Love Boat," so immersion and deep involvement with fellow travelers, yes, the studies, not so much...
The problem is that we usually give people _huge_ sentences, then suspend 80% of the time so we can hold it over them when they get out, add about half that again in probation. Then, while on probation, if you fark up _anything_ they haul you back in, threaten to give you all your backup time, which they might, then tag on some additional time and probation for your violation.
In effect, once you become a felon, you are probably going to drop dead before you truly have "served your time."
IANAL yadda-yadda, but in California at least, I seem to recall it was the law that if you show up on schedule for a W2 non-exempt job and have nothing to do and are subsequently told to leave, you are required to be paid four hours for being called in at all precisely because of the opportunity cost being shoved off on you.
To create an ever expanding list of things that are not criminal unless you've already committed a crime.
So, you're out from something that got you on the sex offender list. You've served five years and have no inclination toward recidivism. You accidentally send an email to your mom from a friend's account extolling the virtues of Rhubarb and suddenly you're hit with twenty-years' backup time, plus a new charge adding an additional ten years for using an unregistered email address.
A friend of mine didn't get the notice a court fee didn't post and his license was suspended. So, driving four miles per hour under the limit, he got stopped and they informed him of the suspension. Welcome to fifteen years backup plus another one... for a paperwork mistake.
These laws aren't meant to keep people who truly are dangerous off the streets. They're designed to hold a de facto life sentence over anyone convicted of any crime and ensure that Corrections Corp. of America experiences perpetual "market expansion."
...if their game stopped working after six months, much less six years or a decade or more.
That part of the anti-DRM argument, though philosophically valid and justified, isn't really going to get much attention in the 12-25yo market that makes up probably the same 99.8% of their revenue--and always has. Not to mention, with all the online components of games, people are pretty used to the idea of "server goes down, game dies" not to mention the idea of paying for it more than once and the obvious fact that it is eventually just going to go away.
If you're offended by having your privacy invaded, just make it horribly offensive for the invader as well.
With the right accessorizing and appropriate leather:latex:chainmail ratio, you can ensure even the most intrepid airport screener will breeze you through in record time.
Oh...and, yes, Truecrypt is terrific, but not nearly as fun.
This is not merely about mortgages and Wall Street. This is about retaining any tangible meaning behind the phrase "Full Faith and Credit of the United States."
We just narrowly avoided having a single-day sell-off equivalent to 5% of GDP. That could have (and still could) cause a run on holdings and deposits followed by a flight to foreign currencies severe enough to quickly make the Zloty look like hard currency in comparison.
On the bright side, at the end of such a catastrophe, our currency would be in such a shambles, we could get all those manufacturing jobs back from the Chinese sweatshops in time for Christmas.
At the Federal level, A76 explains it all...and it has been around in various forms since the 1920's. Basically, if there's anything the government does that could possibly be done by private interests, they HAVE to outsource it if they can possibly save a nickel in doing so.
Not directly related to TFA, but it IS why if you end up in the federal clink, you're quite likely going to be sent to one of the private prisons run by Corrections Corporation of America.
Not exactly the market you want driven by profit motive, methinks, though it does explain why we have the largest, fastest growing prison population in the world.
If they're running their shopping cart on it. I just tried to configure one and got the following error. I mean, honestly, what has happened to Cray if they're releasing applications that don't handle simple CRUD exceptions? This would earn an F in high school level computer science and released into production should be enough to tank their stock:
Server Error in '/configurator' Application.
An item with the same key has already been added. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Stack Trace:
[ArgumentException: An item with the same key has already been added.]...
Version Information: Microsoft.NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.42; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.42
Yeah, I find it hard to believe that the 11GB I burn through for $70 on my HSDPA card equates to the 112KB the same $70 would purchase for SMS. That same 11GB would thus cost me $7.3 million per month if billed as SMS.
Perhaps someone with more protocol and hardware knowledge than me can explain how that's remotely reasonable.
Yes, they ARE on the hook for the charges under their roaming agreements--and no, the bank is actually NOT on the hook, it is the RETAILERS who are on the hook. The bank/creditor will suck the money straight back on claim of fraud.
In that sense, it is even MORE peculiar that wireless carriers aren't more proactive about this, because they will be billed whether you pay dime one or not.
I've had calls from my bank's fraud department when they see a spike in, say, clothing purchases at department stores -- because I hardly EVER do that.
If they can call me because charges amounting to less than 10% of what flies in and out of my account roll through over a weekend -- not just because of how much, but because of/where/ -- AT&T sure as hell could flag an account that is fast approaching 50 times normal usage in the space of 24 hours.
Considering I have ATT, I travel internationally, I use data to work using VOIP and RDP over VPN when I do so and have never had a bill from them exceeding $300, yeah, I find this pretty fucking ridiculous.
It is reasonable to expect charges in Canada to be roughly the same as roaming agreements for many years have included Canada as a basic service. Yeah, it's AT&T's fault if they weren't told they needed that for CANADA when they TOLD THEM THEY WERE GOING THERE.
I can see charging, double, triple, even ten times as much barring that petty nickle-dime $14 (or whatever the hell it is these days) service fee for included international roaming, but 32,200% more? I'd say that's a tad out of line because you know full well AT&T is buying that airtime in bulk and sure as shit isn't remitting more than about a couple ten bucks of that $19,320 to fucking Rogers.
"How was it done before 'always-on', 'always-connected'? Surely it was less efficient."
Yes, it was far less efficient. You had to get in your car and drive to the office at 3:30AM instead of using RDP over VPN from bed.
That 24x7 nature of the job hasn't really changed in fifty years. It's just you now have FAR more people DOING that sort of job who are shocked, SHOCKED that they can't get a $100k+ job that's little more stressful than the $35k receptionist's, save for being, you know, smart and stuff.
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You want to know who "BOUGHT" him? Take a look and while you're at it, go look at the RIAA. You know how much they gave him? Precisely ZILCH. Their members did, though. A total of $5,250. I bet he's really shaking to repay that favor.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/summary.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638
Seriously, if "doing HTML" is the only skill someone has to offer, they do not command enough to warrant a title other than slapping the word "Assistant" ahead of the title of their direct supervisor. Since even that may be vastly overstating the truth, simply "Administrative Assistant" with "HTML skills" in the job description has more than sufficed for the better part of the last decade.
What's the point of getting more specific than that when there is in fact nothing more to specify?
The problem here is that the scale involved is enormous. One day of an average hurricane releases roughly the energy equivalent of an entire year of electrical consumption...for the entire planet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(energy)
With a craptastic website worse than a 9th-grader's MySpace page and a /. story with a solitary link to !@#$ing Engadget, the actual product is sure to be chock full of quality.
Lack of experience in a given field at 35 will hurt you far more than lack of a degree. If you have neither, yes, you're competing with 19yos who will work for probably a fraction what you will, or at least that is the perception.
If you can, try to find 'your field' that the last 20 years backs up and gradually migrate to IT. Study formally or informally as you see fit, but your real problem is in appearing to be starting from square one. Find your 'domain knowledge' and move toward IT and you'll be able to compete with mere CS grads who haven't a clue about the broader implications of their work and often that is more important than the minutiae of An undergrad CS degree.
It's pretty doubtful that "we all know what it means." It's not a simple paradox, though it was insightfully lampooned by Bugs Bunny. It's basicaly about infinite division...and, as adequately pointed out by Bugs, this:
"In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead."
--Aristotle, Physics VI
It has nothing whatever to do with taking naps, though most people think it is and nothing more.
...and just start programming in it.
Hopefully, you have a relatively coherent background that is focused in some way. "IT/Programming" is a HUGE field. You can't really just get an "IT job" of any sort of quality. I mean, programming WHAT? Recipe apps for iPhones or reactor controls for ballastic missile submarines?
Think of this as changing your _role_ in your existing field rather than changing fields entirely. Hiring managers will be far more likely to listen to you if you present yourself as a seasoned professional in a specific field who is willing to expand their responsibilities, rather than a Johnny-come-lately with little to no skills and zero relevance.
I don't mind uninsured motorists and, face it, there will _always_ be uninsured motorists -- not least because of the droves with insurance who have a lapse due to bureaucratic technicalities. Besides, you msot likely have insurance to cover your damages when they can't. With the police by default assigning 50/50 guilt outside of one party doing 100 in a school zone, it's generally sort of pointless to bother thinking about the other person's insurance anyway. You both get nailed on you collision line and if the other guy doesn't have it, tough.
The only time uninsured motorists are a personal problem is when you yourself are uninsured or underinsured and want to bleed the other guy's insurance dry. Unless he _really_ screwed up and was 100% at fault, that's generally not going to happen anyway, so, basically, stop worrying about it and enjoy the fact that you're covered.
Back when Chapman University ran it, we called it "The Love Boat," so immersion and deep involvement with fellow travelers, yes, the studies, not so much...
The problem is that we usually give people _huge_ sentences, then suspend 80% of the time so we can hold it over them when they get out, add about half that again in probation. Then, while on probation, if you fark up _anything_ they haul you back in, threaten to give you all your backup time, which they might, then tag on some additional time and probation for your violation.
In effect, once you become a felon, you are probably going to drop dead before you truly have "served your time."
IANAL yadda-yadda, but in California at least, I seem to recall it was the law that if you show up on schedule for a W2 non-exempt job and have nothing to do and are subsequently told to leave, you are required to be paid four hours for being called in at all precisely because of the opportunity cost being shoved off on you.
To create an ever expanding list of things that are not criminal unless you've already committed a crime.
So, you're out from something that got you on the sex offender list. You've served five years and have no inclination toward recidivism. You accidentally send an email to your mom from a friend's account extolling the virtues of Rhubarb and suddenly you're hit with twenty-years' backup time, plus a new charge adding an additional ten years for using an unregistered email address.
A friend of mine didn't get the notice a court fee didn't post and his license was suspended. So, driving four miles per hour under the limit, he got stopped and they informed him of the suspension. Welcome to fifteen years backup plus another one... for a paperwork mistake.
These laws aren't meant to keep people who truly are dangerous off the streets. They're designed to hold a de facto life sentence over anyone convicted of any crime and ensure that Corrections Corp. of America experiences perpetual "market expansion."
That part of the anti-DRM argument, though philosophically valid and justified, isn't really going to get much attention in the 12-25yo market that makes up probably the same 99.8% of their revenue--and always has. Not to mention, with all the online components of games, people are pretty used to the idea of "server goes down, game dies" not to mention the idea of paying for it more than once and the obvious fact that it is eventually just going to go away.
ICANN IS INTERNATIONAL.
...is a good offense.
If you're offended by having your privacy invaded, just make it horribly offensive for the invader as well.
With the right accessorizing and appropriate leather:latex:chainmail ratio, you can ensure even the most intrepid airport screener will breeze you through in record time.
Oh...and, yes, Truecrypt is terrific, but not nearly as fun.
This is not merely about mortgages and Wall Street. This is about retaining any tangible meaning behind the phrase "Full Faith and Credit of the United States."
We just narrowly avoided having a single-day sell-off equivalent to 5% of GDP. That could have (and still could) cause a run on holdings and deposits followed by a flight to foreign currencies severe enough to quickly make the Zloty look like hard currency in comparison.
On the bright side, at the end of such a catastrophe, our currency would be in such a shambles, we could get all those manufacturing jobs back from the Chinese sweatshops in time for Christmas.
At the Federal level, A76 explains it all...and it has been around in various forms since the 1920's. Basically, if there's anything the government does that could possibly be done by private interests, they HAVE to outsource it if they can possibly save a nickel in doing so.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars/a076/a076.html
Not directly related to TFA, but it IS why if you end up in the federal clink, you're quite likely going to be sent to one of the private prisons run by Corrections Corporation of America.
Not exactly the market you want driven by profit motive, methinks, though it does explain why we have the largest, fastest growing prison population in the world.
If they're running their shopping cart on it. I just tried to configure one and got the following error. I mean, honestly, what has happened to Cray if they're releasing applications that don't handle simple CRUD exceptions? This would earn an F in high school level computer science and released into production should be enough to tank their stock:
Server Error in '/configurator' Application.
An item with the same key has already been added.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Stack Trace:
[ArgumentException: An item with the same key has already been added.] ...
Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.42; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.42
Yeah, I find it hard to believe that the 11GB I burn through for $70 on my HSDPA card equates to the 112KB the same $70 would purchase for SMS. That same 11GB would thus cost me $7.3 million per month if billed as SMS.
Perhaps someone with more protocol and hardware knowledge than me can explain how that's remotely reasonable.
That was, rather, the point.
My charges in Iceland on Friday hit my U.S. account detail by Monday. So much for _your_ theories.
Yes, they ARE on the hook for the charges under their roaming agreements--and no, the bank is actually NOT on the hook, it is the RETAILERS who are on the hook. The bank/creditor will suck the money straight back on claim of fraud.
In that sense, it is even MORE peculiar that wireless carriers aren't more proactive about this, because they will be billed whether you pay dime one or not.
I've had calls from my bank's fraud department when they see a spike in, say, clothing purchases at department stores -- because I hardly EVER do that.
If they can call me because charges amounting to less than 10% of what flies in and out of my account roll through over a weekend -- not just because of how much, but because of /where/ -- AT&T sure as hell could flag an account that is fast approaching 50 times normal usage in the space of 24 hours.
Considering I have ATT, I travel internationally, I use data to work using VOIP and RDP over VPN when I do so and have never had a bill from them exceeding $300, yeah, I find this pretty fucking ridiculous.
It is reasonable to expect charges in Canada to be roughly the same as roaming agreements for many years have included Canada as a basic service. Yeah, it's AT&T's fault if they weren't told they needed that for CANADA when they TOLD THEM THEY WERE GOING THERE.
I can see charging, double, triple, even ten times as much barring that petty nickle-dime $14 (or whatever the hell it is these days) service fee for included international roaming, but 32,200% more? I'd say that's a tad out of line because you know full well AT&T is buying that airtime in bulk and sure as shit isn't remitting more than about a couple ten bucks of that $19,320 to fucking Rogers.
"How was it done before 'always-on', 'always-connected'? Surely it was less efficient."
Yes, it was far less efficient. You had to get in your car and drive to the office at 3:30AM instead of using RDP over VPN from bed.
That 24x7 nature of the job hasn't really changed in fifty years. It's just you now have FAR more people DOING that sort of job who are shocked, SHOCKED that they can't get a $100k+ job that's little more stressful than the $35k receptionist's, save for being, you know, smart and stuff.