You're not an hourly contractor, you're a W2 employee. When hourly figures are quoted, you have to take all of those factors into consideration - your total compensation is closer to $90,000 once you do. This is still on the low side, so I'm going to assume you live in the south, which is the only place I've seen rates this low. In the northeast, there aren't really any programming contracts below $40/hr and most are between $40/hr and $60/hr. The numbers are contracts I've seen listed through agencies, so the clients are really paying $80-$120 an hour, and what YOU get is after their cut. Independents make more like $70-$100 an hour, at least in DE, PA, NJ, NY. In the end, I think it evens out. It seems like salaries for 'real programming jobs' are around $60k-$80 a year. After you pay all of your own benefits, spend 800 hours doing sales calls (most of which result in nothing) and then do the tons of paperwork (and pay for your Tums for the dry periods) you end up with 900-1000 billable hours. So even at $100 and hour, you're not really any better off than working for Shitco. But if you need to be your own boss or really like picking your projects, its worth it.
As I said, they're helping the consumer only because they know they'll make money out of it.
Why is this a problem? Honestly, some people will bitch about anything. Do you *honestly* care about the person who will eventually purchase the products your company makes? Do you work hard because you want to make sure they get the best possible product and are happy and satisfied with it? Not likely, but if you do, it's only because you know that taking that approach will cause you to be noticed and promoted by management and recieve better compensation.
That was the problem with supermarkets.
Nobody cared then, and nobody cares now. Three sky-is-falling posts in a row, yet, in ten years, if all stores are Wal-Mart, then all stores will be Wal-Mart, and the only difference will be that you have a few extra bucks in your pocket.
Don't cry, you (and everyone else) determine these things. If people are willing to pay more for slight increases in quality and service, then there will always be alternatives. If people insist on the lowest priced products, at the expense of privacy, service, and everything else, then Wal Mart will soon be all there is. Why should it be any other way?
I'm not sure what the strict definition of Video on Demand is, but my cable company has a service called onDemand where you can watch any of two dozen or so movies whenever you want. Its basically pay-per-view with VCR controls. What would "true" VoD do that this service doesn't?
Its simpler than that. Someone in WSJ said once that McDonalds is simply a marketing corporation, nothing more, Coke is the only product on the menu that makes more than 0.1% profit or something.
Macs are quickly becoming anti-person computers. As it is, you have to feel intimidated sitting in front of an Imac, with its neck-like monitor stalk and condescending 17" display staring down at you. How long before Macs are simply too cool and artsy-fartsy to associate with the cool logic and stiff 9 to 5 work demands of a user? The pain associated with allowing yourself to be 'used' by the average human will become too much for them to bear. Be very afraid....
Since methane and CO2 take time to heat the atmosphere there will be a considerable delay time. By the time that significant results are seen, the global warming effect will have achieved enough power that cutting all human added greenhouse gases to zero will not be able to reverse the spiral of destruction that global warming will bring.
Wow. You sky-is-falling hippies get better with each post, but this is a new milestone. Now, "Its already too late!". Even if we reverse course, the swing will take too long. Oh well, maybe now that it doesn't matter you'll all get off my ass for driving my truck.
really? what makes you think that? there have been several cataclysmic ice ages that wiped out entire ecosystems. planet-wide waves of extinction have occurred before.
Oddly enough, all of these things happened without our influence. I'm so tired of hearing this global warming crap. Millions of species became extinct without us having to lift a finger, and most of these would have gone as well, regardless of our actions. You give people way too much credit.
I remember growing up in the 1970s hearing how the climate was gradually cooling and we would eventually be cast into another Ice Age. 25 years later and we're melting, all of a sudden.
This is a political issue, plain and simple. We don't know that any of these changes wouldn't have occurred on their own. I feel sorry for these 'earth day freaks', what will they do in a few years when this issue quietly disappears? Oh, yeah, that's right, they will have graduated by then, and be out working hard to make the payments on their wives' Durangos.
Right, except for the fact that web servers do not *require* a static IP address, and there are probably 300 people reading this thread who run legit non-spamming mail servers on dynamic IP as well.
Static IPs in China spam to AOL just fine, the poor bastard above can't send real email to his brother, this is your solution?
Actually, the tax base issue makes this different. Skilled, High-salary workers pay almost all of the taxes in this country (the top 10% in income pay 64% of the income tax to be exact).
All AT&T machines have it.
All Panasonic machines have it (the Panasonic tape model I had in College in '88 had this feature).
All V-tech machines have it.
Every single one radio shack sells has it (yes, I'm there right now, and yes, I'm bored, so bored that I'm going to now walk around the mall and TRY to find one that DOESN'T have this feature)
...All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
"Enemy Combatants" is a made-up phrase used to sidestep international law. Of course, you'll deny this, but someday the ashcroft's of this world will start locking up "Potential Technology Insurgents" without cause or recourse, then you'll understand. But then it will be too late for you, you'll just be gone one day, and some stupid ass on slashdot will say "Due Process isn't for hackers" or something similarly vapid.
Not sure what version of OWA you used that was 'slow and buggy', but a client of mine has ~15000 users on it for over a year without incident, the biggest issues are the subtle interface differences.
What version of VMware was too slow? VMW on a 3.06 P4 ran windows under VMware on linux faster than native on the machines we replaced (1.2GHz PIIIs), the fact that you could run 3 at a time sold it. But from what your requirements describe, crossover office may be a simpler solution.
Right. No other country has supported a foreign interest, only to have the realationship fail and result in going to war. I seem to remember this happening to Brittain once or twice at least, maybe even three times, four?
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You're not an hourly contractor, you're a W2 employee. When hourly figures are quoted, you have to take all of those factors into consideration - your total compensation is closer to $90,000 once you do. This is still on the low side, so I'm going to assume you live in the south, which is the only place I've seen rates this low. In the northeast, there aren't really any programming contracts below $40/hr and most are between $40/hr and $60/hr. The numbers are contracts I've seen listed through agencies, so the clients are really paying $80-$120 an hour, and what YOU get is after their cut. Independents make more like $70-$100 an hour, at least in DE, PA, NJ, NY. In the end, I think it evens out. It seems like salaries for 'real programming jobs' are around $60k-$80 a year. After you pay all of your own benefits, spend 800 hours doing sales calls (most of which result in nothing) and then do the tons of paperwork (and pay for your Tums for the dry periods) you end up with 900-1000 billable hours. So even at $100 and hour, you're not really any better off than working for Shitco. But if you need to be your own boss or really like picking your projects, its worth it.
Why is this a problem? Honestly, some people will bitch about anything. Do you *honestly* care about the person who will eventually purchase the products your company makes? Do you work hard because you want to make sure they get the best possible product and are happy and satisfied with it? Not likely, but if you do, it's only because you know that taking that approach will cause you to be noticed and promoted by management and recieve better compensation.
That was the problem with supermarkets. Nobody cared then, and nobody cares now. Three sky-is-falling posts in a row, yet, in ten years, if all stores are Wal-Mart, then all stores will be Wal-Mart, and the only difference will be that you have a few extra bucks in your pocket. Don't cry, you (and everyone else) determine these things. If people are willing to pay more for slight increases in quality and service, then there will always be alternatives. If people insist on the lowest priced products, at the expense of privacy, service, and everything else, then Wal Mart will soon be all there is. Why should it be any other way?
In Soviet Russia, buttocks clenches You
What SW are you using for this? Its been a few years since I bought Studio Vision.....
So where do you get these Micro-ATX dual opteron boards?
I'm not sure what the strict definition of Video on Demand is, but my cable company has a service called onDemand where you can watch any of two dozen or so movies whenever you want. Its basically pay-per-view with VCR controls. What would "true" VoD do that this service doesn't?
Its simpler than that. Someone in WSJ said once that McDonalds is simply a marketing corporation, nothing more, Coke is the only product on the menu that makes more than 0.1% profit or something.
Its how fast Tony Montanna goes with his litta fran.
We got to esspan ditrobewchun...New york, chikago, los hanjalisss.
Macs are quickly becoming anti-person computers. As it is, you have to feel intimidated sitting in front of an Imac, with its neck-like monitor stalk and condescending 17" display staring down at you. How long before Macs are simply too cool and artsy-fartsy to associate with the cool logic and stiff 9 to 5 work demands of a user? The pain associated with allowing yourself to be 'used' by the average human will become too much for them to bear. Be very afraid....
So Calvin can piss freely in Finland?
Wow. You sky-is-falling hippies get better with each post, but this is a new milestone. Now, "Its already too late!". Even if we reverse course, the swing will take too long. Oh well, maybe now that it doesn't matter you'll all get off my ass for driving my truck.
Oddly enough, all of these things happened without our influence. I'm so tired of hearing this global warming crap. Millions of species became extinct without us having to lift a finger, and most of these would have gone as well, regardless of our actions. You give people way too much credit.
I remember growing up in the 1970s hearing how the climate was gradually cooling and we would eventually be cast into another Ice Age. 25 years later and we're melting, all of a sudden.
This is a political issue, plain and simple. We don't know that any of these changes wouldn't have occurred on their own. I feel sorry for these 'earth day freaks', what will they do in a few years when this issue quietly disappears? Oh, yeah, that's right, they will have graduated by then, and be out working hard to make the payments on their wives' Durangos.
Stay Cool
I believe the cutoff for "top 10%" is around US$90k. In the northeast, this includes about 40% of "IT Professionals"
Thanks for being gentle though.
Right, except for the fact that web servers do not *require* a static IP address, and there are probably 300 people reading this thread who run legit non-spamming mail servers on dynamic IP as well. Static IPs in China spam to AOL just fine, the poor bastard above can't send real email to his brother, this is your solution?
OK, lets see your source on this. Oh, do you have inside information and can't reveal it? Oh, no? You made it up? That's what I thought.
Expect to see wave after wave of US layoffs in the wake of the elections...
And the election will have affected this how?
especially if Bush wins again.
If? Have you read a newspaper or watched TV lately? Without Hillary the question is not "If".
Actually, the tax base issue makes this different. Skilled, High-salary workers pay almost all of the taxes in this country (the top 10% in income pay 64% of the income tax to be exact).
All AT&T machines have it. All Panasonic machines have it (the Panasonic tape model I had in College in '88 had this feature). All V-tech machines have it. Every single one radio shack sells has it (yes, I'm there right now, and yes, I'm bored, so bored that I'm going to now walk around the mall and TRY to find one that DOESN'T have this feature)
And oddly enough, that's what duct tape was made for.
Also, Duct Tape is the silvery cloth gear, Duck Tape is what you use to tape up your bird.
...All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
"Enemy Combatants" is a made-up phrase used to sidestep international law. Of course, you'll deny this, but someday the ashcroft's of this world will start locking up "Potential Technology Insurgents" without cause or recourse, then you'll understand. But then it will be too late for you, you'll just be gone one day, and some stupid ass on slashdot will say "Due Process isn't for hackers" or something similarly vapid.
Right. Why pay attention to what the client wants? That's no way to run an effective support infrastructure.....
Not sure what version of OWA you used that was 'slow and buggy', but a client of mine has ~15000 users on it for over a year without incident, the biggest issues are the subtle interface differences.
What version of VMware was too slow? VMW on a 3.06 P4 ran windows under VMware on linux faster than native on the machines we replaced (1.2GHz PIIIs), the fact that you could run 3 at a time sold it. But from what your requirements describe, crossover office may be a simpler solution.
Too bad this doesn't work reliably anymore. Try: lalane -"juicer" -"juice" -"juicing" for a page full of links about buying a juice machine.
Right. No other country has supported a foreign interest, only to have the realationship fail and result in going to war. I seem to remember this happening to Brittain once or twice at least, maybe even three times, four?