I'm a married 25 year old male in the IT industry, and I have to say, there is nothing forcing you into a stressful job. My last job was incredibly stressfull - after working there for 2 and a half years I felt more like I was 50 then 24. So when I started looking for a new job, I made the working conditions my top priority. There are jobs out there that arent 70 hours a week, carry a cell at all times, buy antacid tablets at Sams Club in bulk jobs out there. The problem is they usually aren't as exciting or pay as much overall. What I always tell people is look at your overall *hourly rate* - someone who makes 60 thousand working 60 hours a week and someone making 40 thousand working 40 hours a week are making the same amount per hour! Goverment contractor jobs are good, as well as jobs for more progressive copanies. Avoid startups like they are radioactive - having worked for two (one my father's small buisness) - I can honestly say that I will never do that to myself again. At the end of the day - I go home to my wife, and my other interests.
I was fortunate - since I was nearer to the start of my career - I was able to change jobs to a much lower stress job, that was right by the subway, and paid more then the job that was trying to kill me:) - It took me a full year of looking though.
Linux needs to start to come up with it's own products, not lower quality knockoff versions of Apple or M$ apps. Open source really leads in some areas - I am really inpressed with some of the open source file systems, and obviously server apps are on open source first and foremost. Open source needs to figure out how to attract the greet minds - the people that can figure out what the masses want before the masses do.
"In addition, revenue generated from SCO's SCOsource licensing initiative was $20,000"
Looks like all the licence sales total add up to $20,000! I'm not sure if that figure includes the $ extorted from webhost EV1.
http://ir.sco.com/EdgarDetail.cfm?CompanyID=CALD&C IK=1102542&FID=1104659-04-6300&SID=04-00
I'm not claming to speak on behalf of everyone, but I interview a fair number of people whenever we have an opening at my help desk. I'll ask about gaps in resumes just like I'd ask about anything else. Honesty really works (well unless you have something really nasty:) ) If you were looking for work for a year - say that you are looking for a year. Assuming you have the skills to work where you are interviewing , employers are looking for personality more then anything else. How do you handle adversity? Tell it to them as a story without too much bitterness, and you've just humanized yourself to a recruiter that might see hundreds of resumes and interview a fair amount of people a day.
I *really* hope the less experienced users out there that read this, don't now become afraid of the good spyware removers. Readers here know that spybot and adaware are great, but since all the names of the other malware/trojan apps are so similar, how is joe homeowner supposed to keep them straight?
Pretty interseting endorsement of the PPC architecture - straight form the beast itself. I wonder how Steve Jobs will spin this - a chip so good, even M$ uses it!
Apple has absorbed zip too recently - as of OS X 10.3 zip compression is built into the OS. They look to be moving away from Aladdin's propriatary.sit format...
Correct -I just upgraded the hard drive on mine - and when I went to reformat the old one the partitions were listed as QNX.
BTW - I see a lot of Replay bashing here. Just to give another side of the story - I purchased a Panasonic branded replay about 3 years ago. It has been beyond fantastic. It has given me years of transparent operation. Far beyond passing the wife test - I have to practacally pry the remote from her hands. After a few years the hard drive became really whiny - had this annoying high pitched squeal. I replaced it - and for 70$ my 30 hour became a silent 80 hour:) I have heard a lot of nasty stories after the company changed hands, which is sad, because the replay i have is one of my favorite tech purchases
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It was a typo - Darl meant to say "SCO 0wnz0rs your buisness" - but spell check changed it:)
This is the end result of engineering driven marketing... When you relentlessly try to make the chip with the "most megahertz', you lose focus. AMD and Apple/IBM have started to pull away in quality - in terms of actual work done per clock cycle. While it's true that the average Joe or PHB might not know any better - you can only continue on so long...
But that's just it - they changed the buisness model. Open source *can't* go out of buisness - it's not for-profit to begin with. An individual Linux company, say RedHat or Suse or Mandrake could go out of buisness, but Linux itself be bankrupted. Old open source code can be taken up by another company. What scares me more is Linux companies being absorbed by other software companies that might not know what to do....
We are really starting to see the results of constant economic pressure in Microsoft. Once a monopoly has real competition - it is forced to either *gasp* innovate or lower prices! I think in the coming years, All computer users will benefit from Linux - even if they never use it. Windows users will see lower prices and a somewhat friendlier Beast, and Mac users are already getting a ton of great open source product integreted into OS X.
At the risk of being called flamebait - I have to say that Mr. Tognazzini thinks a little too highly about himself. Yes, he makes some valid points - but he refuses to recognise that there is not One Universal Soltuion to design. One example - he loves the use of corners to activate Expose windows, and loves having active Konfabulator widgets. I think expose is great - but I would never activate it by mousnig to the corner when there is a single key assigned to it. And while I think Konfabulator makes an amazing demo, (much as Mr. Tognazzini says the dock does) after a few hours having a massive analog clock in the center of your screen gets old, no matter how neat it once looked. What works for one person does not work for everyone, even if they have done amazing work in the past.
This is also a problem of someone who was intimately involved with a company at one point, doing groundbreaking work on a groundbreaking product - but now he can only critisize from the outside. He has a vested interest in romantisizing the "good old days" of OS 1-9.
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There was a 20 minute piece that 60 Minutes did on Skull and Bones about a month ago.
I was fortunate - since I was nearer to the start of my career - I was able to change jobs to a much lower stress job, that was right by the subway, and paid more then the job that was trying to kill me
I signed up for an account, but now all my messages are showing up written right to left!
Linux needs to start to come up with it's own products, not lower quality knockoff versions of Apple or M$ apps. Open source really leads in some areas - I am really inpressed with some of the open source file systems, and obviously server apps are on open source first and foremost. Open source needs to figure out how to attract the greet minds - the people that can figure out what the masses want before the masses do.
Yeah, so you can run Tux Racer at eleventy billion frames per second? j/k
...I thought it was going to be another SCO article...
"In addition, revenue generated from SCO's SCOsource licensing initiative was $20,000" Looks like all the licence sales total add up to $20,000! I'm not sure if that figure includes the $ extorted from webhost EV1. http://ir.sco.com/EdgarDetail.cfm?CompanyID=CALD&C IK=1102542&FID=1104659-04-6300&SID=04-00
I'm not claming to speak on behalf of everyone, but I interview a fair number of people whenever we have an opening at my help desk. I'll ask about gaps in resumes just like I'd ask about anything else. Honesty really works (well unless you have something really nasty :) ) If you were looking for work for a year - say that you are looking for a year. Assuming you have the skills to work where you are interviewing , employers are looking for personality more then anything else. How do you handle adversity? Tell it to them as a story without too much bitterness, and you've just humanized yourself to a recruiter that might see hundreds of resumes and interview a fair amount of people a day.
Nope: It's confirmed by M$ http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1526474,00.as p
...pirates in Thailand announced that they would continue to sell XP Pro from streetcarts for a dollar a disk.
The Porn Industry Association of America. They can even do ads like the MPAA did:
"When you pirate porn, your not just hurting the Jenna Jamesons, you hurting the fluffers, the camermen, the spooge moppers......"
I *really* hope the less experienced users out there that read this, don't now become afraid of the good spyware removers. Readers here know that spybot and adaware are great, but since all the names of the other malware/trojan apps are so similar, how is joe homeowner supposed to keep them straight?
Pretty interseting endorsement of the PPC architecture - straight form the beast itself. I wonder how Steve Jobs will spin this - a chip so good, even M$ uses it!
If I were Taco - I would have posted this under another name. Up next: a story asking if the products in those "enlargement" spams really work ;)
We had a few of those at my old college :)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lug
Apple has absorbed zip too recently - as of OS X 10.3 zip compression is built into the OS. They look to be moving away from Aladdin's propriatary .sit format...
Correct -I just upgraded the hard drive on mine - and when I went to reformat the old one the partitions were listed as QNX. BTW - I see a lot of Replay bashing here. Just to give another side of the story - I purchased a Panasonic branded replay about 3 years ago. It has been beyond fantastic. It has given me years of transparent operation. Far beyond passing the wife test - I have to practacally pry the remote from her hands. After a few years the hard drive became really whiny - had this annoying high pitched squeal. I replaced it - and for 70$ my 30 hour became a silent 80 hour :) I have heard a lot of nasty stories after the company changed hands, which is sad, because the replay i have is one of my favorite tech purchases
It was a typo - Darl meant to say "SCO 0wnz0rs your buisness" - but spell check changed it :)
This is the end result of engineering driven marketing... When you relentlessly try to make the chip with the "most megahertz', you lose focus. AMD and Apple/IBM have started to pull away in quality - in terms of actual work done per clock cycle. While it's true that the average Joe or PHB might not know any better - you can only continue on so long...
Yeah - how about the VIC20 port? I have my audio tape drive ready to go!
But that's just it - they changed the buisness model. Open source *can't* go out of buisness - it's not for-profit to begin with. An individual Linux company, say RedHat or Suse or Mandrake could go out of buisness, but Linux itself be bankrupted. Old open source code can be taken up by another company. What scares me more is Linux companies being absorbed by other software companies that might not know what to do....
We are really starting to see the results of constant economic pressure in Microsoft. Once a monopoly has real competition - it is forced to either *gasp* innovate or lower prices! I think in the coming years, All computer users will benefit from Linux - even if they never use it. Windows users will see lower prices and a somewhat friendlier Beast, and Mac users are already getting a ton of great open source product integreted into OS X.
At the risk of being called flamebait - I have to say that Mr. Tognazzini thinks a little too highly about himself. Yes, he makes some valid points - but he refuses to recognise that there is not One Universal Soltuion to design. One example - he loves the use of corners to activate Expose windows, and loves having active Konfabulator widgets. I think expose is great - but I would never activate it by mousnig to the corner when there is a single key assigned to it. And while I think Konfabulator makes an amazing demo, (much as Mr. Tognazzini says the dock does) after a few hours having a massive analog clock in the center of your screen gets old, no matter how neat it once looked. What works for one person does not work for everyone, even if they have done amazing work in the past. This is also a problem of someone who was intimately involved with a company at one point, doing groundbreaking work on a groundbreaking product - but now he can only critisize from the outside. He has a vested interest in romantisizing the "good old days" of OS 1-9.
I would call their handy 1-800 number to complain! 1-800-726-8649 Call and say that you believe thier practices are unacceptable - on thier dime!
was Starpower - they have a bundle of Local phone line, basic cable and a cable modem for 90$ a month.