So your saying that a contract worker even after paying for his or her own equal benefits, to that of a regular employee, still makes more then a regular employee? If your properly paying taxes I doubt this to be the case.
The solution seems quite simple here. Microsoft, HP, or any other company should just hire the workers as their own employees. If Companies would act more like families and treat their employees as such we wouldn't have all these problem. On the flip side it is an employees responsibility to either put up or get out whether they are contracted or regular. I have a problem with contract labor but only because of the way its implemented. As stated in many other posts the IRS has rules about this. Money drives business so the IRS could change companies habbits with the changing of its rules.
Google isn't perfect. www.bergsresort.com can be found at yahoo but not at google. Try doing a search for "berg's resort" at both google and yahoo. It will only come up in yahoo. Though I have tried desperately to get google to crawl my site.
This entire premise is retarded! I could not believe for one second that the world would stand by and not do everything possible to launch by May.
If for no other reason there is a lot more money and pride in the construction of the ISS and the US NASA space shuttles are the only medium for continuing the construction project.
If the deal looks too good and is setup to look legit then you might get some false positives which would just piss people off. Also remember that a spam message needs to look like a spam message else it will either be easily blockable or easily ignored.
If education is the soldier in a fortified defense against a problem, Law is the wall and the weapons the soldiers use again the invasion.
We need both Law and Education to properly defend against this problem and socially unacceptable problems in our world today.
In the United States it is a federal crime to break into someones computer. Someone who breaks into a computer in the Unites States is considered a terrorist. A common medium for spam are zombie networks, which are large groups of random computer infected with some type of backdoor allowing a spammer to give that computer commands to send out massive ammounts of spam. Thus comparing a spammer to a terrorist isn't really that far off.... At least accourding to US law.
I see the future using a lot more distributed computing and distributed technologies.
More programs like at distributed.net. Also cancer reseach, mapping the human genes, and SETI.
I see more distributed software technologies. Microsoft itself wanted to try "download and run" schemes, where you purchase a piece of software and then download some code chunk that allows you to run the program for only a single session.
In gaming Bit Torrent is a popular medium for patching games and Steam is certainly going to be a technology that I see many gaming companies jumping on.
The internet its self is distributed and was envisioned by ARPANET to be distributed.
So I see future research increasingly looking at ways to further distribute computing both in processing power, information gathering and information distribution.
Built my first Beowulf cluster when I was 20. One of my pride sections of my resume and often talked about in past interviews. I have to say I found it difficult when I tried to put it together by hand without a distro. Then I used scyld and things because quite easy and fluid.
Does this new mystical job that I can get in 2 weeks also come with a special spatula that is dishwasher safe?
OK I digress, Yes I have identified at least 13 sysadmin jobs near me in Minnesota just tonight. This is a heck of a lot better then a year ago when I was job searching. Now I just have to get rid of my fear of retaliation from my boss if "she" (yes she) were to ever find out. *sigh* Cest La Vie
You all have very good points. The biggest problem is that I don't want to be in this town in 5 years. I don't see a future in maybe grossing 45k by the time I retire in 35-40 years. Please no one respond back with cracks about retirement age. Anyways the house will come as well as the fair wage and job I enjoy. It all takes patience which is something I have an abundance of. -peace
My living expenses equal about $20,000/year including taxes paid. That leaves me with 8,000 / year to spend on myself. Now I choose to save this money as much as I can. But if you figure at least another 1,000 a year in unforseen expenses that gives you 7,000. The average starter house around here is $130,000.
Now maybe I have to high of expectations but I am unwilling to buy a house until I can afford to pay it off in 10 years. I am fiscally tight and everyone I know tells me I am insane to try live that way.
*sigh* agreed. My programmer and graphic artist are all in the same boat. The current fear though is that I'll never again be able to have full control over all the aspects of my jobs, systems, security, and networking. I get to dabble in being a mail admin, cisco admin, DBA, WebAdmin, perl guru, shell scripting guru etc. I am worried that by leaving I'll get a much better paying job but that I'll need to start from the bottom again and do more mundain work of creating users all day. I am also forced to learn very broad topics every single day. Something that I am told doesn't happen in corporate america.
Though I think the loss of control and general paranoia is the biggest thing keeping me from leaving.
Also I have only seen about 5 systems administration type jobs in Minnesota in the last 3 months. I swear that the jobs still are not out there!
I am a Linux Systems Administrator of 20 machines for a small time company in a small town of 50,000(which is the county seat). I command a salary of $28,000 and I am told to like it. A combination of corporation in big cities and the economy drive the average wages.
Unless my current town is so drastically different these wage studies must only take into account large cities of 100,000 or more.
In Minnesota you have 3 days to return any item, in it original purchased condition, to the place of purchase and recieve a 100% refund. One exception to this rule that I know of opened software cannot be returned in Minnesota under any circumstances.
Even with IBM claiming to hire thousands of new people, they are not hiring engineers. I am a hardware and OS guy myself. I have been looking for good systems administrator positions in mainly the Minnesota area. Though I found a job now it certainly isn't an luxurious as the position sounded 3-4 years ago. Also the positions simply are not there. With what positions are available brings a huge ammount of competition. I see the job market becoming stronger now though, because VP's now know the state of the federal goverment and can plan accourdingly. Also christmas will spark retailers and give a very good meteric for how the retail market is going which of course hires many programmers/admins./end rant
True, first I'd like to point out that I was joking about the reprocessing into bullets. Sarcasm doesn't flow well over text. Secondly I'd like to point out that though most waste is solid, contaminated water is not. I believe the waste water is the biggest concern. But I could be wrong.
(I)can't we just turn it into depleted uranium/platonium shells for raging the next US war?
In all seriousness I think that there are better options then nuclear power. I am a true believer in harnessing the sun. Build a spacebased solarcell array and shoot all that energy via laser or whatnot back to earth. We have the technology and I think the funding is there as well.
This was actually a slight joke on my part. The Steve Case that I cited is actually a professor at Minnesotat State University, Mankato. He is not at all related to the Steve Case who founded and is CEO of AOL. Steve of Mankato though is a truly excellent professor and anyone lucky enough to attend MSU,Mankato should take at least one of his classes. Especially computer Organization. He is a hardware prof and more specifically wireless.
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So your saying that a contract worker even after paying for his or her own equal benefits, to that of a regular employee, still makes more then a regular employee? If your properly paying taxes I doubt this to be the case.
The solution seems quite simple here. Microsoft, HP, or any other company should just hire the workers as their own employees. If Companies would act more like families and treat their employees as such we wouldn't have all these problem. On the flip side it is an employees responsibility to either put up or get out whether they are contracted or regular. I have a problem with contract labor but only because of the way its implemented. As stated in many other posts the IRS has rules about this. Money drives business so the IRS could change companies habbits with the changing of its rules.
If it wasn't for the Apple 2E I would have never learned about diptheria or how deep a river has to be to ford it.
In short, yes. One must push one's business.
Google isn't perfect. www.bergsresort.com can be found at yahoo but not at google. Try doing a search for "berg's resort" at both google and yahoo. It will only come up in yahoo. Though I have tried desperately to get google to crawl my site.
This entire premise is retarded! I could not believe for one second that the world would stand by and not do everything possible to launch by May. If for no other reason there is a lot more money and pride in the construction of the ISS and the US NASA space shuttles are the only medium for continuing the construction project.
If the deal looks too good and is setup to look legit then you might get some false positives which would just piss people off. Also remember that a spam message needs to look like a spam message else it will either be easily blockable or easily ignored.
If education is the soldier in a fortified defense against a problem, Law is the wall and the weapons the soldiers use again the invasion.
We need both Law and Education to properly defend against this problem and socially unacceptable problems in our world today.
In the United States it is a federal crime to break into someones computer. Someone who breaks into a computer in the Unites States is considered a terrorist. A common medium for spam are zombie networks, which are large groups of random computer infected with some type of backdoor allowing a spammer to give that computer commands to send out massive ammounts of spam. Thus comparing a spammer to a terrorist isn't really that far off.... At least accourding to US law.
I see the future using a lot more distributed computing and distributed technologies.
More programs like at distributed.net. Also cancer reseach, mapping the human genes, and SETI.
I see more distributed software technologies. Microsoft itself wanted to try "download and run" schemes, where you purchase a piece of software and then download some code chunk that allows you to run the program for only a single session.
In gaming Bit Torrent is a popular medium for patching games and Steam is certainly going to be a technology that I see many gaming companies jumping on.
The internet its self is distributed and was envisioned by ARPANET to be distributed.
So I see future research increasingly looking at ways to further distribute computing both in processing power, information gathering and information distribution.
Built my first Beowulf cluster when I was 20. One of my pride sections of my resume and often talked about in past interviews. I have to say I found it difficult when I tried to put it together by hand without a distro. Then I used scyld and things because quite easy and fluid.
Thanks for the reply.
Does this new mystical job that I can get in 2 weeks also come with a special spatula that is dishwasher safe?
OK I digress,
Yes I have identified at least 13 sysadmin jobs near me in Minnesota just tonight. This is a heck of a lot better then a year ago when I was job searching. Now I just have to get rid of my fear of retaliation from my boss if "she" (yes she) were to ever find out. *sigh* Cest La Vie
You all have very good points. The biggest problem is that I don't want to be in this town in 5 years. I don't see a future in maybe grossing 45k by the time I retire in 35-40 years. Please no one respond back with cracks about retirement age. Anyways the house will come as well as the fair wage and job I enjoy. It all takes patience which is something I have an abundance of.
-peace
My living expenses equal about $20,000 /year including taxes paid. That leaves me with 8,000 / year to spend on myself. Now I choose to save this money as much as I can. But if you figure at least another 1,000 a year in unforseen expenses that gives you 7,000. The average starter house around here is $130,000.
Now maybe I have to high of expectations but I am unwilling to buy a house until I can afford to pay it off in 10 years. I am fiscally tight and everyone I know tells me I am insane to try live that way.
*sigh* agreed. My programmer and graphic artist are all in the same boat. The current fear though is that I'll never again be able to have full control over all the aspects of my jobs, systems, security, and networking. I get to dabble in being a mail admin, cisco admin, DBA, WebAdmin, perl guru, shell scripting guru etc. I am worried that by leaving I'll get a much better paying job but that I'll need to start from the bottom again and do more mundain work of creating users all day. I am also forced to learn very broad topics every single day. Something that I am told doesn't happen in corporate america. Though I think the loss of control and general paranoia is the biggest thing keeping me from leaving. Also I have only seen about 5 systems administration type jobs in Minnesota in the last 3 months. I swear that the jobs still are not out there!
I am a Linux Systems Administrator of 20 machines for a small time company in a small town of 50,000(which is the county seat). I command a salary of $28,000 and I am told to like it. A combination of corporation in big cities and the economy drive the average wages. Unless my current town is so drastically different these wage studies must only take into account large cities of 100,000 or more.
That is why I try to always include "" around everything I do in any unix environment and leave off trailing /'s when ever possible.
After a recent trip to the theater I am a bit skeptical and a bit scare about any corporation or goverment agency with the word umbrella in it.
In Minnesota you have 3 days to return any item, in it original purchased condition, to the place of purchase and recieve a 100% refund. One exception to this rule that I know of opened software cannot be returned in Minnesota under any circumstances.
Even with IBM claiming to hire thousands of new people, they are not hiring engineers. I am a hardware and OS guy myself. I have been looking for good systems administrator positions in mainly the Minnesota area. Though I found a job now it certainly isn't an luxurious as the position sounded 3-4 years ago. Also the positions simply are not there. With what positions are available brings a huge ammount of competition. I see the job market becoming stronger now though, because VP's now know the state of the federal goverment and can plan accourdingly. Also christmas will spark retailers and give a very good meteric for how the retail market is going which of course hires many programmers/admins. /end rant
I get my information from Fox, "fair and balanced". http://www.thesimpsons.com/ :-)
True, first I'd like to point out that I was joking about the reprocessing into bullets. Sarcasm doesn't flow well over text. Secondly I'd like to point out that though most waste is solid, contaminated water is not. I believe the waste water is the biggest concern. But I could be wrong.
(I)can't we just turn it into depleted uranium/platonium shells for raging the next US war? In all seriousness I think that there are better options then nuclear power. I am a true believer in harnessing the sun. Build a spacebased solarcell array and shoot all that energy via laser or whatnot back to earth. We have the technology and I think the funding is there as well.
This was actually a slight joke on my part. The Steve Case that I cited is actually a professor at Minnesotat State University, Mankato. He is not at all related to the Steve Case who founded and is CEO of AOL. Steve of Mankato though is a truly excellent professor and anyone lucky enough to attend MSU,Mankato should take at least one of his classes. Especially computer Organization. He is a hardware prof and more specifically wireless.
When I had Steve case (http://case.cs.mnsu.edu/) back in college I thought he was a great prof. I don't understand where AOL went wrong?