no your looking at it all wrong.
When a car is broke, people die. But when a computer is down people lose money. Which one is worse in the corp eye again?
Lesson to learn, skip recruters, network a little. Do some social engineering and find out who you really need to talk to. Then write some letters, make some phone calls. Make them stick in your head.
My lesson is never send a resume. And it works. At least it works for me.
I've been lucky. Because of the exact market you just described, I have been able to gain skills and climb up the payscale as I jump from job to job. My longest stay at any job has been just over 2 years. I have more then doubled my salary in the last 8 years. And I have not yet been in college. I'm currently in a great position with no plans on leaving where I get to have fun and do programming. I figure this one will be good for a while.
My trick was to get in the company, pick up all I can learn, then jump ship. I would always find a job and then do some calls to find out who the highest person on the totem poll with say in who got hired in the position was. Then I would write him a sales letter about how I can help him. How I have used my skills in the past, and how previous companys profited.
Tipically that got me the interview and the job without the HR people even seeing my resume. In fact my last two jobs didn't even ask for it. Just reference lists.
show me an xbox that can browse the web, download games/movies, do my homework, play games, use a KEYBOARD AND MOUSE for FPS games, check my email, etc.
So they include games, but 11 games that will be 9.99 in 6 months isn't all the great of a deal imho.
I never buy new games, the price point sucks and a rarely play a game past 2-3 months. But my 1100 computer came with tons of nifty features I still use to this day.
I also have problems with not being able to choose who does my recyling, and that I do not see any of the money this company is making going back into my county. So I'm basically paying 2 garbage companys to collect my waste when all I really need is one. Although the second company only picks up stuff that I have to take time out of my day to sort and then make money off of it. So I dont sort it, I still throw it away and yet they still make money off of me and the city/county gains nothing. Plus the collected recyled items still sit in the same landfill my trash goes to only in a seperate section. So they have solved nothing, but instead a private company found a way to trick a county into charging all of its home owners money for no gain to the county.
So what your saying is that there is a lack of good programmers doing php work?
Because these are not php issues, but rather programming issues. Which means you are saying the quality of work that common php devs write is less then the quality of work that other devs write.
But see, I do use fire and police services. Indirectly. I pay to make sure someone is there to put out my house when I light it up (kinda like I pay home owners insurance). And I pay to make sure the police keep criminals out of my town (like paying for a guy to keep up your lawn).
The reason I do not support recycling is because I've seen the huge stockpiles of material that is not getting purchased. And if it does get purchased I can find no record as to how much of that money goes back into my town. So I have to guess that no money goes back into the county from the sale of refuse. So if I was inclined to recycle, I would collect material myself and deliver it for the nominal payment I would receive.
Yep, our recyling is taken out of 1.50 of our water bill per month (St. Jospeph county, Indiana) or if you have well water then will bill you 16.00 every 6 months (which is more then if you have city water btw). They give you a box to put out every other week with crap to recycle.
Now here is the kicker. I can choose my trash company, there are about 4 companys that do trash. But no matter which one I choose, Waste Managment (a private company) will get 32.00 of my money for recyling. I didn't choose them for trash pickup because they were too expensive and only came every other week. Not to mention they would not pick up as much trash. So even though I can vote with my wallet, the county makes sure I still support an inferior service.
In any case, its a rip off and it should be illegal to charge someone for a service they do not use. They even make you pay it if no one lives in the house and there is no trash service (they will give you a one time 3 month credit). Its too bad too many people hear recyling and think its always a good thing.
I think the argument is he should be punished in game by in game police. What happens in bazaro world stays in bazaro world.
In a fantasy world, there are different rules then in this world. In that world, it may be wrong to kill someone, but it is fantasy, therefor you can play a fantasy murderer. In this world you are not a murderer, so you should be charged, tried, and punished in the fantasy world and not in this world. If you commit a crime in this world, you should be punished in this world, not in your fantasy world.
Its not complicated, there are no moral or ethical questions. The fact that this even happened just proves how much people need a life.
obviously morality was programmed into us. Or we wouldn't even know the difference.
It seems to me that we were given all the tools we need to have and uphold morality, only the programers couldn't decide on the rules, so they gave us a few different rule sets to play by.
The simple solution would be to maintain a supported hardware list. And push developers to release specs to attempt to push the community to help develop drivers when the vendors themselves do not.
I mean will microsoft trouble shoot my nvidia video card's 3d support? Or my intel wireless drivers?
Selling an OEM doesn't mean a huge list of supported hardwarePpush a few vendors to develop drivers and release a very small supported hardware list. It might help with adoption. Sure it might cost a little more for them, but they could think of it as a geek advertising campaign. I mean with onlly 5% of the market, if they could grab the geek sector they may get 1-2% more of the market.
I just want to see more competitors to microsoft. Apple is right, the OS needs to be a commodity, but that will never happen until Microsoft gets some real competition. And I dont think that can happen with linux (as much as I love it, and it is all I use) And I dont think it can happen with apple's current buisness model.
I think the people who would buy mac hardware would not build pc's themselves if they could buy osx oem. However people like me would never buy mac hardware (I get off on building my own box) and thus they will never have my sale. However, if I could buy an oem license, I might concider it.
In some states (such as indiana) you can bond out of the insurance requirment by paying a bond at the county/city building. I know of 2 people who (have claimed to) have done this. It is an expensive bond, but is not nearly as expensive of paying for min coverage for a lifetime of driving. Be warned though, if you do get in an accident (that is your fault), and the bond does not cover all the damages/bills, you will get sued. You can also get min coverage directly from the state in indiana at a much lower cost (or so I've been told) then normal insurance comapanys if you are high risk. So check the laws of your state and see what you can find.
I switched to AIG, they were cheaper for my 2 cars, and when my wife had a fender bender, they had the damage inspected by a shop of our choice (we picked the dealer) then sent out someone to evalutate the dealers quote. Then they let the dealer fix it. When the dealer found more damage after starting the repair, again they sent out a guy to evaluate, and paid for the extra repairs too. Best experiance I have ever had with an insurance company. From accident to getting the car back in our hands - 1 week.
Ubuntu is released regularly and predictably; a new release is made every six months. You can use the current stable release or the current development release. Each release is supported with security updates for at least 18 months.
The problem with toolchain upgrades is you wil have things linked to the old toolchain and things linked to the new toolchain which could cause problems. So you really need to emerge -e system 2 times to make sure everything is built with the new toolchian.
Its a pain in the ass to track down bugs otherwise.
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works fine for me as well.
I just stick my XP CD in and install.
In fact, with my nforce4 chipset I have not had ANY problems with SATA in linux or windows.
bootloader trouble with sata? When did you try 2 years ago?
/dev/sda
I haven't had an ide hard drive in years. All I've ever had to do was this.
grub-install
and of course setup my grub.conf file. But that is the same no matter if its ide or sata.
no your looking at it all wrong. When a car is broke, people die. But when a computer is down people lose money. Which one is worse in the corp eye again?
Lesson to learn, skip recruters, network a little. Do some social engineering and find out who you really need to talk to. Then write some letters, make some phone calls. Make them stick in your head.
My lesson is never send a resume. And it works. At least it works for me.
I've been lucky. Because of the exact market you just described, I have been able to gain skills and climb up the payscale as I jump from job to job. My longest stay at any job has been just over 2 years. I have more then doubled my salary in the last 8 years. And I have not yet been in college. I'm currently in a great position with no plans on leaving where I get to have fun and do programming. I figure this one will be good for a while.
My trick was to get in the company, pick up all I can learn, then jump ship. I would always find a job and then do some calls to find out who the highest person on the totem poll with say in who got hired in the position was. Then I would write him a sales letter about how I can help him. How I have used my skills in the past, and how previous companys profited.
Tipically that got me the interview and the job without the HR people even seeing my resume. In fact my last two jobs didn't even ask for it. Just reference lists.
I think vonage is priced well, for under 30.00 a month I can do what it cost me almost 60.00 a month to do with SBC.
Thats a savings of over 50%.
show me an xbox that can browse the web, download games/movies, do my homework, play games, use a KEYBOARD AND MOUSE for FPS games, check my email, etc.
So they include games, but 11 games that will be 9.99 in 6 months isn't all the great of a deal imho.
I never buy new games, the price point sucks and a rarely play a game past 2-3 months. But my 1100 computer came with tons of nifty features I still use to this day.
I also have problems with not being able to choose who does my recyling, and that I do not see any of the money this company is making going back into my county. So I'm basically paying 2 garbage companys to collect my waste when all I really need is one. Although the second company only picks up stuff that I have to take time out of my day to sort and then make money off of it. So I dont sort it, I still throw it away and yet they still make money off of me and the city/county gains nothing. Plus the collected recyled items still sit in the same landfill my trash goes to only in a seperate section. So they have solved nothing, but instead a private company found a way to trick a county into charging all of its home owners money for no gain to the county.
Sounds great to me.
So what your saying is that there is a lack of good programmers doing php work?
Because these are not php issues, but rather programming issues. Which means you are saying the quality of work that common php devs write is less then the quality of work that other devs write.
But see, I do use fire and police services. Indirectly. I pay to make sure someone is there to put out my house when I light it up (kinda like I pay home owners insurance). And I pay to make sure the police keep criminals out of my town (like paying for a guy to keep up your lawn).
The reason I do not support recycling is because I've seen the huge stockpiles of material that is not getting purchased. And if it does get purchased I can find no record as to how much of that money goes back into my town. So I have to guess that no money goes back into the county from the sale of refuse. So if I was inclined to recycle, I would collect material myself and deliver it for the nominal payment I would receive.
Yep, our recyling is taken out of 1.50 of our water bill per month (St. Jospeph county, Indiana) or if you have well water then will bill you 16.00 every 6 months (which is more then if you have city water btw). They give you a box to put out every other week with crap to recycle.
Now here is the kicker. I can choose my trash company, there are about 4 companys that do trash. But no matter which one I choose, Waste Managment (a private company) will get 32.00 of my money for recyling. I didn't choose them for trash pickup because they were too expensive and only came every other week. Not to mention they would not pick up as much trash. So even though I can vote with my wallet, the county makes sure I still support an inferior service.
In any case, its a rip off and it should be illegal to charge someone for a service they do not use. They even make you pay it if no one lives in the house and there is no trash service (they will give you a one time 3 month credit). Its too bad too many people hear recyling and think its always a good thing.
still not as bad as the mandatory recylcing program our county has. I have to pay for a service I have no intention of using 32.00 a year.
I think the argument is he should be punished in game by in game police. What happens in bazaro world stays in bazaro world.
In a fantasy world, there are different rules then in this world. In that world, it may be wrong to kill someone, but it is fantasy, therefor you can play a fantasy murderer. In this world you are not a murderer, so you should be charged, tried, and punished in the fantasy world and not in this world. If you commit a crime in this world, you should be punished in this world, not in your fantasy world.
Its not complicated, there are no moral or ethical questions. The fact that this even happened just proves how much people need a life.
obviously morality was programmed into us. Or we wouldn't even know the difference.
It seems to me that we were given all the tools we need to have and uphold morality, only the programers couldn't decide on the rules, so they gave us a few different rule sets to play by.
Thank god they dont know I play UT.
Do you even realize the number of murders I've made in the last hour?
The simple solution would be to maintain a supported hardware list. And push developers to release specs to attempt to push the community to help develop drivers when the vendors themselves do not.
I mean will microsoft trouble shoot my nvidia video card's 3d support? Or my intel wireless drivers?
Selling an OEM doesn't mean a huge list of supported hardwarePpush a few vendors to develop drivers and release a very small supported hardware list. It might help with adoption. Sure it might cost a little more for them, but they could think of it as a geek advertising campaign. I mean with onlly 5% of the market, if they could grab the geek sector they may get 1-2% more of the market.
I just want to see more competitors to microsoft. Apple is right, the OS needs to be a commodity, but that will never happen until Microsoft gets some real competition. And I dont think that can happen with linux (as much as I love it, and it is all I use) And I dont think it can happen with apple's current buisness model.
I think the people who would buy mac hardware would not build pc's themselves if they could buy osx oem. However people like me would never buy mac hardware (I get off on building my own box) and thus they will never have my sale. However, if I could buy an oem license, I might concider it.
In some states (such as indiana) you can bond out of the insurance requirment by paying a bond at the county/city building. I know of 2 people who (have claimed to) have done this. It is an expensive bond, but is not nearly as expensive of paying for min coverage for a lifetime of driving. Be warned though, if you do get in an accident (that is your fault), and the bond does not cover all the damages/bills, you will get sued. You can also get min coverage directly from the state in indiana at a much lower cost (or so I've been told) then normal insurance comapanys if you are high risk. So check the laws of your state and see what you can find.
I switched to AIG, they were cheaper for my 2 cars, and when my wife had a fender bender, they had the damage inspected by a shop of our choice (we picked the dealer) then sent out someone to evalutate the dealers quote. Then they let the dealer fix it. When the dealer found more damage after starting the repair, again they sent out a guy to evaluate, and paid for the extra repairs too. Best experiance I have ever had with an insurance company. From accident to getting the car back in our hands - 1 week.
The xmms eq only effects MP3's. You can however do a google for eq-xmms and install that plugin to get full eq on all media types.
Yes its dumb, but it works.
Now if only rhythmbox would get a eq, life would be great.
Actually.
Ubuntu is released regularly and predictably; a new release is made every six months. You can use the current stable release or the current development release. Each release is supported with security updates for at least 18 months.
source www.ubuntulinux.org
The problem with toolchain upgrades is you wil have things linked to the old toolchain and things linked to the new toolchain which could cause problems. So you really need to emerge -e system 2 times to make sure everything is built with the new toolchian. Its a pain in the ass to track down bugs otherwise.
But they own the linux code, so clearly the faults in linux exist in their own OS.
Heh, any fool who updates gentoo without looking at what it is about to update is asking for trouble.
emerge -uDvat world
and check to make sure it isn't going to update your toolchain or baselayout without you being ready.
Or use one of the emerge wrapper scripts out there.
And it makes a great streaming media server/mame box for the living room.