I got laid off from Sabre late last year after 3 years as a Senior Developer. Sabre froze salaries, stopped raises and bonuses after they aquired the company I worked for. There were programmers at Sabre making less than I was that were as or more experienced than me and they hadn't had raises in even longer.
Since June of this year, I've been able to dictate my price. Recruiter calls up looking for experienced Enterprise Web Developer? $45/hour minimum. Period. End of story. No I won't take less, there's someone on the other line offering $50/hour.
Find out what the campus offers in the way of server space. Most give you a campus web and e-mail account (www.some.edu/~foo/). Backup your schoolwork to the campus account (if you have a folder off your website root, even better).
Go to the campus computing center or bookstore and find out what Academic prices or hookups they have before you buy software. MS is making deals with more and more colleges where you can buy full-versions of MS-whatever for ~$5/CD on-campus. Adobe, Macromedia and others have non-commercially licensed, full versions of their software available to students as well.
One of the most overlooked reasons to lock your door at all times is because while the damn drunks can never find their own room, they'll sure as hell find an unlocked door.
The next gamble is: Are they lookng for a bedroom or a bathroom?
Looks good, however, will HP/Compaq please release an AMD64-based laptop that can run a 64-bit Linux out of the box as well?
Those shiny Compaq AMD64 laptops running Windows XP shore look purty. I'd just rather see a Tux sticker sitting where that "ready for future versions of Windows" sticker is now.
Imagine the nightmares web page designers would have to go through if they had to support two completely different non-standards-compliant browsers.
Calm down there sonny and remember to salute your superior officers. Some of us have already been through BW I and II, as well as few "Browser Actions" like the launch of NN 6.0.
Boy howdy, I remember those days. You had to make sure your Palette had the Web-Safety on or BLAM!, colors bleeding all over a Mac browser IT WAS HORRIBLE!
Sniff a browser incorrectly and the Flash movie you had on point was as dead as an MIDI file without an <embed> tag in Netscape.
You just make sure and stick to JavaScript object detection insted of browser detection and it won't make a hill of beans difference WHAT kind of new fangled whojeewhatsis they come up with to view web pages, you'll do just fine.
Now put down that ActiveX Control sonny, we don't want you hopped up and going through any kind of delusions of granduer when you're out in the jungle.
Yes, but you are missing the "on any device" part. At least all atempts so far to get my banking issues solved with my toaster have failed.
TOASTER: You know the last time you had toast? Eighteen days ago. 11:36, Tuesday the third. Two rounds. SPIFF: Ssshhh! TOASTER: I mean, what's the point of buying a toaster with artificial intelligence if you don't like toast? SPIFF: I do like toast. TOASTER: I mean, this is my job! This is cruel! Just cruel! SPIFF: Look, I'm busy! TOASTER: Oh, you're not busy eating toast, are you? SPIFF: No, I'm trying to reconcile my checkbook. TOASTER: I mean, the whole purpose of my existence is to serve you with hot, buttered, scrummy toast. If you don't want any, then my existence is meaningless. SPIFF: Good. Now show my my current checking account balance. TOASTER: I toast, therefore I am. SPIFF: CHECKING ! ACCOUNT ! BALANCE !
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18, it's a magic number.
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Don't y'all remember the SchoolHouse Rock about counting by 18?
*taps foot*
Eighteen is a magic number. Yes it is, it's a magic number. Somewhere in the ancient, mystic eighteenity You get eighteen as a magic number. The past and the present and the future, Faith and hope and charity, The heart and the brain and the body Give you eighteen. That's a magic number.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<game>
<tag>
<it>you</it>
</tag>
</game>
. . . not really, but I figured I'd get that one out of the way. :D
Can you make a raid array out of me, Greg?
Everytime the MPAA shows up at its present location, they jump to a new system.
:D
If it was like the old Galactica, the MPAA would've had TorrentCasinoPlanet.com ready and waiting as soon as SuprNova went under.
Now, if they can only figure out which tracker has the hot blonde leading it along by its network cable . . .
IE doesn't have Adblock and a by-default pop-up blocker. :D
comes Geek Responsibility.
If you ever look at a picture of an animal
and then imagine what it would look like through the scope on your rifle
you might be a redneck.
Elmer: Be vewy quiet. I'm trying to win an iPod.
WABBIT TWACKS!! WABBIT HOLE!!
(aims rifle over the internet and fires) KILL THE WABBIT! KILL THE WABBIT! KILL THE WABBIT!
Bugs (via IM): Kill the wabbit?
Elmer: YO HO HO! YO HO HO! YO HO...
Bugs (IM'ing): Oh mighty warrior of great fighting stock
Might I inquire to ask eh... what's up doc?
Elmer (IM's back): I'm going to kill the wabbit!
Bugs: O mighty warrior, 'twill be quite a task
How will you do it, might I inquire to ask?
E: I will do it with my browser and remote rifle.
B: Browser and remote rifle?
E: Browser and remote rifle?
B: Remote rifle?
E: Remote rifle!
B: Remote rifle.
E: Yes, remote rifle, and I give you a sample!
(exit Bugs at 168kb/sec)
E: (spoken) There goes my iPod.
*drool*
I got laid off from Sabre late last year after 3 years as a Senior Developer. Sabre froze salaries, stopped raises and bonuses after they aquired the company I worked for. There were programmers at Sabre making less than I was that were as or more experienced than me and they hadn't had raises in even longer.
:D
Since June of this year, I've been able to dictate my price. Recruiter calls up looking for experienced Enterprise Web Developer? $45/hour minimum. Period. End of story. No I won't take less, there's someone on the other line offering $50/hour.
Thanks for laying me off Sabre.
Find out what the campus offers in the way of server space. Most give you a campus web and e-mail account (www.some.edu/~foo/). Backup your schoolwork to the campus account (if you have a folder off your website root, even better).
Go to the campus computing center or bookstore and find out what Academic prices or hookups they have before you buy software. MS is making deals with more and more colleges where you can buy full-versions of MS-whatever for ~$5/CD on-campus. Adobe, Macromedia and others have non-commercially licensed, full versions of their software available to students as well.
One of the most overlooked reasons to lock your door at all times is because while the damn drunks can never find their own room, they'll sure as hell find an unlocked door.
The next gamble is: Are they lookng for a bedroom or a bathroom?
Ugh . . . reading . . . *sobs* Anyway you could just burn me an ISO of your HD? :D
Looks good, however, will HP/Compaq please release an AMD64-based laptop that can run a 64-bit Linux out of the box as well?
Those shiny Compaq AMD64 laptops running Windows XP shore look purty. I'd just rather see a Tux sticker sitting where that "ready for future versions of Windows" sticker is now.
Don't you mean SNT, PC and NPC?
SNT = Skirts & Ties
PC = Practicing Catholics
NPC = Non-practicing Catholics
1 slot = 2 CPUs .
2 slots = 4 CPUs
4 slots = 16 CPUs
. .
Someone flips on a Beowulf cluster started this way and it's Game Over man:
Neo@Beowulf>./Whoah
*cluster flies off*
Imagine the nightmares web page designers would have to go through if they had to support two completely different non-standards-compliant browsers.
.
Calm down there sonny and remember to salute your superior officers. Some of us have already been through BW I and II, as well as few "Browser Actions" like the launch of NN 6.0.
Boy howdy, I remember those days. You had to make sure your Palette had the Web-Safety on or BLAM!, colors bleeding all over a Mac browser IT WAS HORRIBLE!
Sniff a browser incorrectly and the Flash movie you had on point was as dead as an MIDI file without an <embed> tag in Netscape.
You just make sure and stick to JavaScript object detection insted of browser detection and it won't make a hill of beans difference WHAT kind of new fangled whojeewhatsis they come up with to view web pages, you'll do just fine
Now put down that ActiveX Control sonny, we don't want you hopped up and going through any kind of delusions of granduer when you're out in the jungle.
DIS-missed *salutes*
did you use to work for Sabre too?
Yes, but you are missing the "on any device" part. At least all atempts so far to get my banking issues solved with my toaster have failed.
TOASTER: You know the last time you had toast? Eighteen days ago. 11:36, Tuesday the third. Two rounds.
SPIFF: Ssshhh!
TOASTER: I mean, what's the point of buying a toaster with artificial intelligence if you don't like toast?
SPIFF: I do like toast.
TOASTER: I mean, this is my job! This is cruel! Just cruel!
SPIFF: Look, I'm busy!
TOASTER: Oh, you're not busy eating toast, are you?
SPIFF: No, I'm trying to reconcile my checkbook.
TOASTER: I mean, the whole purpose of my existence is to serve you with hot, buttered, scrummy toast. If you don't want any, then my existence is meaningless.
SPIFF: Good. Now show my my current checking account balance.
TOASTER: I toast, therefore I am.
SPIFF: CHECKING ! ACCOUNT ! BALANCE !
Took a lot of time to convince them to change as they felt the checkboxes looked better than the radio buttons.
Good lord, don't get me started on designers and forms.
"But putting round buttons on the page instead of square ones takes away from the feng shui of the layout man."
You said you wanted to "wave those options", when you really wanted to "waive those options". No wonder he was confused.
I mean, you gotta overclock that thing somehow.
It's called the "You Shall Not Passkey". :)
There's an old lady that just drove her SpamMobile into the Farmer's Market of my Inbox!
No, wait.
.. .. ..
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Already getting that.
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Digital Cable Booster - only 49.95 izc x uxqdshl
D'oh!
Don't y'all remember the SchoolHouse Rock about counting by 18?
. . .
*taps foot*
Eighteen is a magic number.
Yes it is, it's a magic number.
Somewhere in the ancient, mystic eighteenity
You get eighteen as a magic number.
The past and the present and the future,
Faith and hope and charity,
The heart and the brain and the body
Give you eighteen.
That's a magic number.
18, 36, 54 . .
72, 90, 108 . .
126, 144, 162 . .
180.