When I was in school, I always ignored the recommendations to take more business classes. It's all common sense, right? Looking back, I wish I had listened. I definitely was playing catch-up for a while there. Even taking one class would familiarize yourself with a good chunk of the terminology.
Can you say "tunnel vision"? Since when is the web just a bunch of shopping carts? I've been in web application development for 8 years and I have somehow made a living while only working on one shopping cart in my career. Really, all you've done is further my point that response time expectations depend highly on the content of the site.
People are still spending money on stuff like this?
Here's a question: is gmail.com the same as brochureware.com? Would a user visiting a web(2.0)-based application have the same load time expectations as visiting an about page of a company's website?
Of course the answer is no. People with half a brain start to sound like a broken record here when they say "This has no value. It all depends on the site's audience, not a general audience.", but that's because the people behind studies like this never listen.
What the hell does this matter when the elections have no accountability? You're worried about whether your voting power will elect the wrong individual, but you never asked whether you had any power in the first place.
The real question is: why should I go out and vote when the election can be decided by a single SQL statement, a malicious vote counting machine memory card, or the hundreds of other methods of voting fraud that HAPPEN EVERY ELECTION?
'In all likelihood, enterprises will tie deployment of both Vista and Office 2007 with a hardware upgrade cycle.' His reasoning is that it will be easier for companies to handle one disruption to its IT systems than two.
Of course. The Chinese used this reasoning when developing torture techniques. Would you rather die with a single gunshot to the brain, or millions of tiny paper cuts?
IT systems to Microsoft: "Please, just get it over with."
I can speak to that from first-hand experience, which is why I used the example. The truth is that this is the case across the board.
And I do not recruit for them as my job. I said I am involved with the recruiting effort. They use employees to interview potential candidates, rather than HR people.
I'm sorry, but this is horrible advice. If he wants to land himself into jobs that are easily outsourced and devalued, then he should do what you suggest. If he wants to land a position that cannot be outsourced, he needs to go to college and he needs to understand business.
I'm 23 now. I have worked in software development since I was 15. The trick is to stick to start-ups. They are willing to take extra risk to save money, and once you prove yourself, you can gain responsibility quickly.
You will need to have the skills of a $20/hr college intern but be willing do the same work for $10/hr. And when you get more experience, you will need to be as good as a $60/hr college grad but be willing to do the same work for $35/hr.
Don't whine about this. This is your mark in the 'pro' column. And you have few expenses. Thank Zeus that you can market yourself to tightwads.
The hardest job you get will be the first one. You'll need to know someone. I did it by being pro-active, emailing webmasters of sites where I noticed potential UI improvements. I offered the advice for free, and eventually it paid off. Expect it to take 6+ months.
Write articles. Do anything that proves you have something to offer. You'll have to create this proof for free at first.
Don't bother applying to positions through job sites like monster. You won't get anything posted there.
Be realistic in your expectations, but don't be satisfied with them. Take all the opportunities that come your way, even if they don't lead immediately to anything beneficial. You will have a tough time all the way until you graduate from college, so you will need longer-term plans.
Since I've done this successfully, I'd be happy to answer any further questions you have, or provide further advice in specific area.
Attitudes like yours are why people end up bitching about outsourcing/offshoring. If you're going to try to make money of poorly designed products, then you're going to end up whining that your job got shipped off to India.
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Amen. PHP is notorious for breaking crap with little point releases. Remember when they just turned off register_globals and broke 90% of PHP applications? Was this a major release? Was it highlighted in huge blinking bold red text with scary background music on the download page? No. It was one small note in the changelog of a minor point release. I love PHP, but the maintainers are idiots when it comes to this stuff. They don't understand their users at all.
I realize that slashdot readers don't ever RTFA, but typically they at least RTFS. The summary made it clear that IE7 had already been released and was trailing FF2 downloads. The whole point of the summary was the auto-update push.
Do you have examples of this hypocrisy prior to Bush and Clinton? Many people, including myself, feel like the Republican party has changed drastically recently, including in the area of privacy and personal liberty. Your perspective is an interesting one, but you would have to use examples that are not so recent in order to rule out the alternative theory.
I'm not trying to argue -- I'm genuinely interested in further support of your opinion. (Very un-Slashdot-like, eh?)
You laugh, but if you look at the recent Amish school shooting, it's obvious that more and more Amish are embracing technology. I mean, where else would they get ideas like that if not video games?
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When I was in school, I always ignored the recommendations to take more business classes. It's all common sense, right? Looking back, I wish I had listened. I definitely was playing catch-up for a while there. Even taking one class would familiarize yourself with a good chunk of the terminology.
Can you say "tunnel vision"? Since when is the web just a bunch of shopping carts? I've been in web application development for 8 years and I have somehow made a living while only working on one shopping cart in my career. Really, all you've done is further my point that response time expectations depend highly on the content of the site.
People are still spending money on stuff like this?
Here's a question: is gmail.com the same as brochureware.com? Would a user visiting a web(2.0)-based application have the same load time expectations as visiting an about page of a company's website?
Of course the answer is no. People with half a brain start to sound like a broken record here when they say "This has no value. It all depends on the site's audience, not a general audience.", but that's because the people behind studies like this never listen.
What the hell does this matter when the elections have no accountability? You're worried about whether your voting power will elect the wrong individual, but you never asked whether you had any power in the first place.
The real question is: why should I go out and vote when the election can be decided by a single SQL statement, a malicious vote counting machine memory card, or the hundreds of other methods of voting fraud that HAPPEN EVERY ELECTION?
'In all likelihood, enterprises will tie deployment of both Vista and Office 2007 with a hardware upgrade cycle.' His reasoning is that it will be easier for companies to handle one disruption to its IT systems than two.
Of course. The Chinese used this reasoning when developing torture techniques. Would you rather die with a single gunshot to the brain, or millions of tiny paper cuts?
IT systems to Microsoft: "Please, just get it over with."
Granted I haven't had a chance to read the entire article yet
You're right. That isn't too surprising!
It is important to note that nothing has changed legally. The judge just simply refused to throw out the case.
By the way, this is a ridiculously old story.
How did so many people fail to figure all that out?
How is it that you've been a Slashdot member since at least July and you're still asking questions like this?
If you're talking about a vote in the US elections, you have severely overpriced it.
I can speak to that from first-hand experience, which is why I used the example. The truth is that this is the case across the board.
And I do not recruit for them as my job. I said I am involved with the recruiting effort. They use employees to interview potential candidates, rather than HR people.
I'm sorry, but this is horrible advice. If he wants to land himself into jobs that are easily outsourced and devalued, then he should do what you suggest. If he wants to land a position that cannot be outsourced, he needs to go to college and he needs to understand business.
All of that, plus enjoying these next few years of life is way way more important than an internship
Dead wrong.
I'm involved with recruiting for one of the largest consulting firms. No internships? No interview.
I'm 23 now. I have worked in software development since I was 15. The trick is to stick to start-ups. They are willing to take extra risk to save money, and once you prove yourself, you can gain responsibility quickly.
You will need to have the skills of a $20/hr college intern but be willing do the same work for $10/hr. And when you get more experience, you will need to be as good as a $60/hr college grad but be willing to do the same work for $35/hr.
Don't whine about this. This is your mark in the 'pro' column. And you have few expenses. Thank Zeus that you can market yourself to tightwads.
The hardest job you get will be the first one. You'll need to know someone. I did it by being pro-active, emailing webmasters of sites where I noticed potential UI improvements. I offered the advice for free, and eventually it paid off. Expect it to take 6+ months.
Write articles. Do anything that proves you have something to offer. You'll have to create this proof for free at first.
Don't bother applying to positions through job sites like monster. You won't get anything posted there.
Be realistic in your expectations, but don't be satisfied with them. Take all the opportunities that come your way, even if they don't lead immediately to anything beneficial. You will have a tough time all the way until you graduate from college, so you will need longer-term plans.
Since I've done this successfully, I'd be happy to answer any further questions you have, or provide further advice in specific area.
Attitudes like yours are why people end up bitching about outsourcing/offshoring. If you're going to try to make money of poorly designed products, then you're going to end up whining that your job got shipped off to India.
Amen. PHP is notorious for breaking crap with little point releases. Remember when they just turned off register_globals and broke 90% of PHP applications? Was this a major release? Was it highlighted in huge blinking bold red text with scary background music on the download page? No. It was one small note in the changelog of a minor point release. I love PHP, but the maintainers are idiots when it comes to this stuff. They don't understand their users at all.
cunning linguists
That's disgusting.
Viacom is the parent company of Comedy Central, not YouTube (owned by Google), as the grammatical error in the summary implies.
I realize that slashdot readers don't ever RTFA, but typically they at least RTFS. The summary made it clear that IE7 had already been released and was trailing FF2 downloads. The whole point of the summary was the auto-update push.
Will today's release as a high-priority, force-fed update fix this issue?
Yes.
Let people RTFA and discuss it in the comments.
Comments are for people who haven't read the article.
Do you have examples of this hypocrisy prior to Bush and Clinton? Many people, including myself, feel like the Republican party has changed drastically recently, including in the area of privacy and personal liberty. Your perspective is an interesting one, but you would have to use examples that are not so recent in order to rule out the alternative theory.
I'm not trying to argue -- I'm genuinely interested in further support of your opinion. (Very un-Slashdot-like, eh?)
You laugh, but if you look at the recent Amish school shooting, it's obvious that more and more Amish are embracing technology. I mean, where else would they get ideas like that if not video games?
Ashdown hopes to help pave the way for better decision-making on the Hill
You're new here, aren't you.
Sincerely,
Washington
Yes, my friend, that was my entire point. Given that it is a balance, how does an increase in both help anything?
increased blood levels of a number of hormones, including thyroid hormone, testosterone, and estradiol
So, how would this help?