I agree completely. I'm in the same boat -- I started looking for a new position about 2 weeks ago, and at this point I have 1 job offer (for 15k on top of my current salary), 2 second interviews lined up, 1 third interview and a meeting with a recruiter later this week. All of the other work was done by myself through Monster, Dice, etc. If you've got the right skill set, are in the right area, and are open to working in a different type of environment (smaller company mainly), then you're golden. I'm in the Chicago-land area fwiw.
I know this is off-topic, so mod me as such, but I was wondering if there is a Mac OS X version (or an equivalent application) available. It would be great to be able to take notes in class with something that is more suited to the task, instead of using a word-processor for the ordeal.
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The Case for Free WiFi?
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Mod parent up.
Being a college student, I know of all the local places that provide free WiFi, and I also know of the places that have net access outside of the actual building, and allow you to use it. These are the places that are consistently busy with people during nice weather, and it is a "free" advertisement for their business.
I'm far more likely to visit a business that is less restrictive (ie free unlimited WiFi) because I never know what kind of work (or play) I will be involved in when I get to a cafe.
Exactly. BMI is an absolutely rediculous way of determing if someone is overweight.
Being 6'4" and about 260 puts my BMI at about 31.8, considered "Obese". Although I may have some extra weight on me, I lift 3 days a week and do carido work 4 or 5 days a week, and have been involved in sports for 10+ years. No one I know would consider me anything even close to "Obese".
BMI does not take into account people that are actual big-boned, or have broad shoulders etc.
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
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The startling truth finally became apparent, and it was this: Numbers written on restaurant checks within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single statement took the scientific world by storm. So many mathematical conferences got held in such good restaurants that many of the finest minds of a generation died of obesity and heart failure, and the science of mathematics was put back by years.
"You know, it's at times like this when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young!"
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen."
Microsoft releasing that KB article, is in fact, how crackers figured out how to change their CD key when SP1 wouldn't install.
If the same technique doesn't work for SP2, Microsoft will probably let "companies" know how to change their CD key again, leading to the exact same thing that happened with SP1.
My 3g 30gb iPod is already full, and I'd love to be able to rip most of my music into Apple Lossless and use it on the new 60gb iPod!
Just because you don't have that much music doesn't mean other people don't.
Re:State of the art?
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Shrek 2 How-To
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I personally thought that the facial expressions of the characters in Shrek and Shrek 2 were the best part of the movies. It gave it a character that most other animated films don't have (save for a few, most recently Finding Nemo).
Shrek 2 was an amazing movie, and as a college student I and the rest of the group of ~15 people that went thourougly enjoyed it. It was funny, had an interesting story, and held our interest for almost 2 hours.
I don't think your post is a troll, but I completely disagree with you.
The short answer to there's two different measurement formats used. Decimal (GB) and binary (GiB) formats. Binary is used by Windows and decimal is used by the manufacturers. Both the manufacturer and Windows are giving you the "correct" number.
Binary numbers are numbers that are a power of 2.
Decimal numbers are numbers that are a power of 10.
2^10 is 1,024 the closest Decimal number is 10^3 or 1,000
2^20 is 1,048,576 The closest Decimal number is 10^6 or 1,000,000
2^30 is 1,073,741,824 The closest Decimal number is 10^9 or 1,000,000,000
Now lets look at common terms:
Kilo means 1 thousand
Mega means 1 million
Giga means 1 billion
Tera means 1 Trillion
At the Kilobyte size the difference is about 2.34% While at the Gigabyte stage the difference is 6.86% Since we're living in the day where it's relatively easy to put a full terrabyte of storage in your computer that "close enough" is becoming further and further from "close enough" At the Terrabyte level the difference is getting very close to 10%
Would you want to buy a hard drive that is labeled as 2^35 byte hard drive? Or would you rather see a 500Gb drive? I don't want anybody ever having to pull out a calculator to figure out how big their hard drive is!
Windows is the one reporting things wrong! Not your manufacturer. Windows does the binary calculations and then displays GB next to it. When GB is technically wrong due to it's definition. What it is actually displaying is the GiB size.
Since the GB number will always be so much higher than the GiB number it's a safe bet to assume that the hard drive manufacturers won't convert to using the GiB format. Memory manufacturers on the other hand are doing things right. You don't see then selling 1Gb of RAM as 1,073Mb do ya? It gets VERY confusing in the hardware world due to some people using 1 standard while they other group using the other one.
I'm sure you know ever really getting hard numbers on piracy is impossible just because the nature of the industry and who would really buy something if they couldn't get it for free.
Honestly the responce to it? I think they should embrace and encourage, maybe give a biz model similar to what Napster was pushing for. A distributed model (sign the music so you know it isn't tampered with) that will is a premium up and above the free realm stuff like kazaa. That way people still get their free stuff, the music companies get a shit load of revenue without much effort on their part and everyone is a little happy.
Of course they want to have absolute power over their product, think of the profit that could be made if they could control it no matter what. Or if they could do a pay to play model(pay per view), or if they could figure out a way to pull a microsoft in that they have a limited seat license that only one or 2, etc people could watch that copy of the movie at one time. That is a gold mine in their eyes and will be what they go for. Is it right...? No, but do they want it? Yes.
Piracy, P2P, and etc are just the latest buzz words for them to try and get what they can. Remember a couple of years ago how piracy was akin to supporting terroism, it is just getting more attention from you and I because it is now in a field that is affecting us more as techies.
I think it would be great if a company would set a flat rate per-child for public and/or private schools. Ex: $300 per student for (x) amount of machines, (x) software licenses, (x) amount of time with support and upgrades.
I think a lot of school districts would jump at this idea because it will give them a total cost, instead of having to "guesstimate" at what all the hardware will cost, and the number of people they would have to hire to support systems etc.
You should have faught the ticket. The device that the police use to clock people has an error rating of between 1-3MPH, meaning that you can never get a ticket for doing less than 3MPH over the speed limit.
Not to mention that some studies have shown that gun owners are actually more likely to be killed by a gun than non-gun owners
Wait... you're telling me that someone is more likely to be shot when there is a tool that is used for the purpose of firing a projectile at an object? Now that's an informative study.
I got sick and tired of my Apple hardware (which was under warranty, mind you) breaking, and not having Apple cover the repair costs. There is always a loophole in the AppleCare program, and bugged the piss out of me.
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I agree completely. I'm in the same boat -- I started looking for a new position about 2 weeks ago, and at this point I have 1 job offer (for 15k on top of my current salary), 2 second interviews lined up, 1 third interview and a meeting with a recruiter later this week. All of the other work was done by myself through Monster, Dice, etc. If you've got the right skill set, are in the right area, and are open to working in a different type of environment (smaller company mainly), then you're golden. I'm in the Chicago-land area fwiw.
Why hello, Ms. Liz Ridolfo. I'm happy to see you are into computers (at least I'll tell myself that) and you like to put your pictures online.
Please email me at superdesperateteengeek@needtogetlaid.net
I know this is off-topic, so mod me as such, but I was wondering if there is a Mac OS X version (or an equivalent application) available. It would be great to be able to take notes in class with something that is more suited to the task, instead of using a word-processor for the ordeal.
Mod parent up.
Being a college student, I know of all the local places that provide free WiFi, and I also know of the places that have net access outside of the actual building, and allow you to use it. These are the places that are consistently busy with people during nice weather, and it is a "free" advertisement for their business.
I'm far more likely to visit a business that is less restrictive (ie free unlimited WiFi) because I never know what kind of work (or play) I will be involved in when I get to a cafe.
Exactly. BMI is an absolutely rediculous way of determing if someone is overweight.
Being 6'4" and about 260 puts my BMI at about 31.8, considered "Obese". Although I may have some extra weight on me, I lift 3 days a week and do carido work 4 or 5 days a week, and have been involved in sports for 10+ years. No one I know would consider me anything even close to "Obese".
BMI does not take into account people that are actual big-boned, or have broad shoulders etc.
Either your retarted or you replied to the wrong post.
Oh the irony...
That's nuckin futs! gg FP
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
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The startling truth finally became apparent, and it was this: Numbers written on restaurant checks within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single statement took the scientific world by storm. So many mathematical conferences got held in such good restaurants that many of the finest minds of a generation died of obesity and heart failure, and the science of mathematics was put back by years.
"You know, it's at times like this when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young!" "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen."
Extending the buddy list would be fine, but changing the rate limit would just be sending a message to advertisers...
"You can send as many messages as you want in any period of time! Come flood our networks with your beautiful spam!"
Microsoft releasing that KB article, is in fact, how crackers figured out how to change their CD key when SP1 wouldn't install.
If the same technique doesn't work for SP2, Microsoft will probably let "companies" know how to change their CD key again, leading to the exact same thing that happened with SP1.
Besides the fact that I was referring to the new Apple LOSSLESS format, AAC is superior to MP3 at most bit rates.
My 3g 30gb iPod is already full, and I'd love to be able to rip most of my music into Apple Lossless and use it on the new 60gb iPod!
Just because you don't have that much music doesn't mean other people don't.
I personally thought that the facial expressions of the characters in Shrek and Shrek 2 were the best part of the movies. It gave it a character that most other animated films don't have (save for a few, most recently Finding Nemo).
Shrek 2 was an amazing movie, and as a college student I and the rest of the group of ~15 people that went thourougly enjoyed it. It was funny, had an interesting story, and held our interest for almost 2 hours.
I don't think your post is a troll, but I completely disagree with you.
The short answer to there's two different measurement formats used. Decimal (GB) and binary (GiB) formats. Binary is used by Windows and decimal is used by the manufacturers. Both the manufacturer and Windows are giving you the "correct" number.
.9765625
1,000,000/1,048,576 = .9536743
1,000,000,000/1,073,741,824 = .93132257
Binary numbers are numbers that are a power of 2. Decimal numbers are numbers that are a power of 10.
2^10 is 1,024 the closest Decimal number is 10^3 or 1,000 2^20 is 1,048,576 The closest Decimal number is 10^6 or 1,000,000 2^30 is 1,073,741,824 The closest Decimal number is 10^9 or 1,000,000,000
Now lets look at common terms: Kilo means 1 thousand Mega means 1 million Giga means 1 billion Tera means 1 Trillion
1000/1024 =
Noticing a trend yet?
At the Kilobyte size the difference is about 2.34% While at the Gigabyte stage the difference is 6.86% Since we're living in the day where it's relatively easy to put a full terrabyte of storage in your computer that "close enough" is becoming further and further from "close enough" At the Terrabyte level the difference is getting very close to 10%
Would you want to buy a hard drive that is labeled as 2^35 byte hard drive? Or would you rather see a 500Gb drive? I don't want anybody ever having to pull out a calculator to figure out how big their hard drive is!
Windows is the one reporting things wrong! Not your manufacturer. Windows does the binary calculations and then displays GB next to it. When GB is technically wrong due to it's definition. What it is actually displaying is the GiB size.
Since the GB number will always be so much higher than the GiB number it's a safe bet to assume that the hard drive manufacturers won't convert to using the GiB format. Memory manufacturers on the other hand are doing things right. You don't see then selling 1Gb of RAM as 1,073Mb do ya? It gets VERY confusing in the hardware world due to some people using 1 standard while they other group using the other one.
I'm sure you know ever really getting hard numbers on piracy is impossible just because the nature of the industry and who would really buy something if they couldn't get it for free.
Honestly the responce to it? I think they should embrace and encourage, maybe give a biz model similar to what Napster was pushing for. A distributed model (sign the music so you know it isn't tampered with) that will is a premium up and above the free realm stuff like kazaa. That way people still get their free stuff, the music companies get a shit load of revenue without much effort on their part and everyone is a little happy.
Of course they want to have absolute power over their product, think of the profit that could be made if they could control it no matter what. Or if they could do a pay to play model(pay per view), or if they could figure out a way to pull a microsoft in that they have a limited seat license that only one or 2, etc people could watch that copy of the movie at one time. That is a gold mine in their eyes and will be what they go for. Is it right...? No, but do they want it? Yes.
Piracy, P2P, and etc are just the latest buzz words for them to try and get what they can. Remember a couple of years ago how piracy was akin to supporting terroism, it is just getting more attention from you and I because it is now in a field that is affecting us more as techies.
Many much moosen!
I think it would be great if a company would set a flat rate per-child for public and/or private schools. Ex: $300 per student for (x) amount of machines, (x) software licenses, (x) amount of time with support and upgrades.
I think a lot of school districts would jump at this idea because it will give them a total cost, instead of having to "guesstimate" at what all the hardware will cost, and the number of people they would have to hire to support systems etc.
I've learned to take CNets news with a grain of salt, since many times they just seem to editorialize stories and add in useless comments etc.
To be in business 7 years is a great accomplishment though, and my congratulations go out to them.
I tried using my mod points to bump him up even more.
/. in a long time.
One of the funniest posts I've seen on
You should have faught the ticket. The device that the police use to clock people has an error rating of between 1-3MPH, meaning that you can never get a ticket for doing less than 3MPH over the speed limit.
Not to mention that some studies have shown that gun owners are actually more likely to be killed by a gun than non-gun owners
/yawn.
Wait... you're telling me that someone is more likely to be shot when there is a tool that is used for the purpose of firing a projectile at an object? Now that's an informative study.
Some of us have a conscience and don't commit fraud.
I did 3 months ago, and am happy as a clam.
I got sick and tired of my Apple hardware (which was under warranty, mind you) breaking, and not having Apple cover the repair costs. There is always a loophole in the AppleCare program, and bugged the piss out of me.
I can't wait for the National Do Not Call List to take effect.
HURRY UP!!