All I can say is thank god we have so many people fighting against health care reform. Sure, the people with the 3rd world life expectancy might have access to preventitive health care that could bring them up to par with the dreaded Europe, but is it really worth giving in to Obama's death panel nazi plan just to save a few hundred thousand American lives??
Honestly, those are hellish hours and frankly I think you're insane for working that much. My honest answer, as someone who works out 6 days a week but works a pretty normal 9-5 is that, if I had your job, I wouldn't work out either.
1) It's not seen as a very lucrative career anymore.
2) A lot of the guys who make up the CS major at a given university are creepy, wierd, and annoying.
Seriously though, I'm a young programmer, I've only been working in industry for a little under two years, and just recently I've had my first experience with outsourcing.
The company that I work for decided to outsource a VB app to india. The labor costs were, as one would expect, quite low. Outsourcing is going to have it's share of sucesses and failures and I witnessed a major faliure. Over the 8 months that the application was developed, deadlines were repeatedly missed, and the application is in one word, terrible.
My boss was staying up until the wee hours of the morning in order to talk to the indian company about the project and according to him, the language barrier was barely tolerable.
Right now my full time occupation is re-writing whole modules and forms so that the application (an arcGIS program) actually does what it was intended to do. Will shipping jobs to Canada instead alleviate a few of these problems? Yea I guess so, but like I said "Don't I still lose my job?"*
I was going to go check Squeak out but it looks like that will have to wait. There was a post a couple of months ago about how children today don't really have access from their home computers to an easy to learn programming language. On my C64 I could just start typing out some basic, and I had access to QBasic on one of my early DOS machines. Has anyone out there given Squeak a try. I'm basically looking for something more like a programming language than say Logo, but no as difficult to pick up as PASCAL or C.
I loved Quicksilver. I found the time period, governments, science, alchemy, religion, wars, commerce, and intrigue all fascinating. I'm about 1/3 of the way into The Confusion and am loving every word of it.
That more people didn't like Quicksilver. I thought it was excellent and am really looking forward to reading the Confusion. Since I don't know much about European history, the history itself made the book very interesting.
I usually visit the MSDN site on a daily basis and can say that searching that site is one of the most stressful parts of my day.
"My request can not be processed"???? Of course it can't, that would make things too easy.
Too many times a search on that site has led nowhere while the same search on google brought me to the correct page on the MSDN site.
I can't wait.
This article nicely sums up some of the major reasons that file sharing is not destroying music sales.
For the most part, I download albums that I have owned in the past. In many cases I've owned multiple copies of a CD and am simply not going to pay for another one. Once I started making a decent amount of money this year, I found myself buying more Cds than I ever had before.
Plus, it's not as though downloading an entire album only takes a few minutes. Depending on how obscure the artist or group is, I have found myself searching for a few hours or even several days to nail down every single track on an album. Then you have to listen to every song to make sure it hasn't been cut off and doesn't have any malformed data which causes the song to make a skipping sound. Then depending on the burning software that I use, some of the files will have to be converted to a different format. This does not always work, and so I have to go searching for another copy of the same song and hope that the file format is acceptable
Sometimes it's not worth my time to try to get an entire album from a p2p program and I just go out and buy the damn thing, and the issues raised in the article seem to point to some very real sources of revenue loss for the music industry, which is something that seems to be missing from their crusade against file sharers.
I worked as both a Telemarketer and a door to door salesman for a couple of years (Sorry, I'm not proud of that) and I can honestly say that virtually NO ONE ever wants to talk to you. The way that you make sales is by being an absolute prick. Let them either hang up on you or slam the door in your face, but you NEVER take "No" for an answer. That's why the turnover rate at those jobs is so high. Nobody wants to bother someone in the middle of dinner to ask for money until the person gets violent. I was almost beaten up countless times going door to door. I sold mostly home improvements, and I can say that 95% of all the sales I made were from people who's first five answers were "No". You basically strong arm people into buying something that they wouldn't have gone out and gotten on their own until it was absolutely neccessary.
So.... most people don't want to be bothered by telemarketers at all, but because it's ok for you to call up and harrass anyone you want until they give in, alot of real bastards sell alot of stuff. I know for a fact that the majority of people that I sold to in the past would sign up for the "do not call" list in a second. So the telemarketers have a valid claim when they say that the "do not call" list will devestate their business, because almost everyone they call doesn't want to talk to them at all. Let me just say that I'd be perfectly happy if they all went out of business. Screw 'em, I hated those jobs and I can't stand being bothered by telemarketers, even though I know how to deal with them.
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All I can say is thank god we have so many people fighting against health care reform. Sure, the people with the 3rd world life expectancy might have access to preventitive health care that could bring them up to par with the dreaded Europe, but is it really worth giving in to Obama's death panel nazi plan just to save a few hundred thousand American lives??
Honestly, those are hellish hours and frankly I think you're insane for working that much. My honest answer, as someone who works out 6 days a week but works a pretty normal 9-5 is that, if I had your job, I wouldn't work out either.
1) It's not seen as a very lucrative career anymore. 2) A lot of the guys who make up the CS major at a given university are creepy, wierd, and annoying.
but it appears my copy of Windows is not genuine.
I was so scared of PKs while playing Ultima in 98 that no other game has every provided me with as many thrills.
Just kidding, of course I lose my job.
Seriously though, I'm a young programmer, I've only been working in industry for a little under two years, and just recently I've had my first experience with outsourcing.
The company that I work for decided to outsource a VB app to india. The labor costs were, as one would expect, quite low. Outsourcing is going to have it's share of sucesses and failures and I witnessed a major faliure. Over the 8 months that the application was developed, deadlines were repeatedly missed, and the application is in one word, terrible.
My boss was staying up until the wee hours of the morning in order to talk to the indian company about the project and according to him, the language barrier was barely tolerable.
Right now my full time occupation is re-writing whole modules and forms so that the application (an arcGIS program) actually does what it was intended to do. Will shipping jobs to Canada instead alleviate a few of these problems? Yea I guess so, but like I said "Don't I still lose my job?"*
*I'm not actually worried about losing my job
I was going to go check Squeak out but it looks like that will have to wait. There was a post a couple of months ago about how children today don't really have access from their home computers to an easy to learn programming language. On my C64 I could just start typing out some basic, and I had access to QBasic on one of my early DOS machines. Has anyone out there given Squeak a try. I'm basically looking for something more like a programming language than say Logo, but no as difficult to pick up as PASCAL or C.
Damn, who cares about microsoft, I was just happy Linux was mentioned on The Chapelle Show.
I loved Quicksilver. I found the time period, governments, science, alchemy, religion, wars, commerce, and intrigue all fascinating. I'm about 1/3 of the way into The Confusion and am loving every word of it.
That more people didn't like Quicksilver. I thought it was excellent and am really looking forward to reading the Confusion. Since I don't know much about European history, the history itself made the book very interesting.
Neal Stephenson is incredibly popular with the readers of Slashdot.
You know what, a game of Quake sounds like a great idea, thanks!
So has the author ever seen Pi before, becuase the review mentions just a few similarities.
I usually visit the MSDN site on a daily basis and can say that searching that site is one of the most stressful parts of my day. "My request can not be processed"???? Of course it can't, that would make things too easy. Too many times a search on that site has led nowhere while the same search on google brought me to the correct page on the MSDN site. I can't wait.
This article nicely sums up some of the major reasons that file sharing is not destroying music sales.
For the most part, I download albums that I have owned in the past. In many cases I've owned multiple copies of a CD and am simply not going to pay for another one. Once I started making a decent amount of money this year, I found myself buying more Cds than I ever had before.
Plus, it's not as though downloading an entire album only takes a few minutes. Depending on how obscure the artist or group is, I have found myself searching for a few hours or even several days to nail down every single track on an album. Then you have to listen to every song to make sure it hasn't been cut off and doesn't have any malformed data which causes the song to make a skipping sound. Then depending on the burning software that I use, some of the files will have to be converted to a different format. This does not always work, and so I have to go searching for another copy of the same song and hope that the file format is acceptable
Sometimes it's not worth my time to try to get an entire album from a p2p program and I just go out and buy the damn thing, and the issues raised in the article seem to point to some very real sources of revenue loss for the music industry, which is something that seems to be missing from their crusade against file sharers.
I worked as both a Telemarketer and a door to door salesman for a couple of years (Sorry, I'm not proud of that) and I can honestly say that virtually NO ONE ever wants to talk to you. The way that you make sales is by being an absolute prick. Let them either hang up on you or slam the door in your face, but you NEVER take "No" for an answer. That's why the turnover rate at those jobs is so high. Nobody wants to bother someone in the middle of dinner to ask for money until the person gets violent. I was almost beaten up countless times going door to door. I sold mostly home improvements, and I can say that 95% of all the sales I made were from people who's first five answers were "No". You basically strong arm people into buying something that they wouldn't have gone out and gotten on their own until it was absolutely neccessary. So.... most people don't want to be bothered by telemarketers at all, but because it's ok for you to call up and harrass anyone you want until they give in, alot of real bastards sell alot of stuff. I know for a fact that the majority of people that I sold to in the past would sign up for the "do not call" list in a second. So the telemarketers have a valid claim when they say that the "do not call" list will devestate their business, because almost everyone they call doesn't want to talk to them at all. Let me just say that I'd be perfectly happy if they all went out of business. Screw 'em, I hated those jobs and I can't stand being bothered by telemarketers, even though I know how to deal with them.