I got hired as a programmer five years into my career by a senior programmer friend/mentor who joined a start-up company. All I had done before that was help desk and sales support. He knew me pretty well (we were longtime drinking buddies) and knew I had the aptitude for it. The company sucked, but working for/with my friend was a great learning experience and set me on a great path. Thanks to him, I'm making twice as much as I would be if I had stayed on that career path, after I put up with working for a shakey start-up. Therefore, I suggest "playing golf with the right people" is the way to go. Obviously, if golf is not the thing, figure something else out. Try joining programmer user groups and giving presentations. If you look like you know your stuff, they will trust you even if you don't have the resume to back it up.
Maybe that explains the reason way all space aliens described by abductees resemble asexual unitard-wearing eunuchs!
Maybe they're asexual unitard-wearing eunuchs from OUR OWN future!
"Attention, devolved human from our past timeline: where may we find Mars?"
My problem with this franchise from the beginning of TNG is there are no realistic characters anywhere to be found. Think about it: the reason we love Serenity and Battlestar is because the characters are fallible. They swear, (frak!), sweat, make bad descisions, and occaisionally think with the wrong head. When the sh*t hits the fan, their military (yes, kids, StarFLEET is supposed to be a military organization) training kicks in and they get serious. (Remember when Kirk was hell-bent to start a war with the Klingons on Organia? Spock never said that wasn't a good idea. They just followed orders.)
The reason the alternate universe trek stories are so much fun is all the characters are more realistic -- granted, aggressive, but real.
Ten years of Trek can't measure up to the moment when Adama told his Master Seargent that a good man was in the brig because he couldn't keep his fly zipped.
I think Berman is more of an investment banker then a writer.
That's not my experience. The Sony Z505HE I bought in 1999, that had Windows 98 when it arrived, today runs a dual boot of RedHat 7.3 and Windows XP. I upgraded the hard disk from 8 GB to 40 GB. And I upped the RAM by 50% to 192 MB. With an 802.11b card and the extended battery, (only now becoming affordable!) I can get four hours of battery life. It's been a reliable and fun little computer. I've used it for work, school and games. It doesn't quite have enough horsepower to play some of the more graphical games I enjoy, but otherwise I've been very pleased with it.
The best part was all the free resources I found on the Internet to help me. Someone somewhere posted a step-by-step tutorial for replacing the disk. It was simple to upgrade the memory. And the Linux installation was actually quite simple also. (I'm ashamed to say I'm a Linux newbie.) There's a site somewhere listing all the configuration steps required to tune Linux for the 505, most of which I didn't really need.
Its funny you posted this. I've just delved into this for the first time with the old Handspring Visor I've been toting around. I paid $100 for it when it was new, but I just picked one up at a yard sale for $15. (Both 8MB) I used the Weasel reader, so I don't have to pay anything for that. (Although it doesn't like my version of ZLib. Throws a warning message but continues all right.) I've been reading Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow and I got a copy of Free Cultre by Lessig. The Visor has a backlight that lets me read without waking up the Mrs. Its been a lot of fun for me because this is the first time I've really applied open source software. I've *read* about it all over the place, but this was the first time I ever really found a *personal* benefit.
I've seen Tiger Direct advertising old Palms for $45. Doesn't seem to take much to get into the OSS EBook thing.
I consider it a human rights abuse that I've got to work all weekend because Microsoft VB makes it so easy for crummy hackers think they're software designers.
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I got hired as a programmer five years into my career by a senior programmer friend/mentor who joined a start-up company. All I had done before that was help desk and sales support. He knew me pretty well (we were longtime drinking buddies) and knew I had the aptitude for it. The company sucked, but working for/with my friend was a great learning experience and set me on a great path. Thanks to him, I'm making twice as much as I would be if I had stayed on that career path, after I put up with working for a shakey start-up.
Therefore, I suggest "playing golf with the right people" is the way to go. Obviously, if golf is not the thing, figure something else out. Try joining programmer user groups and giving presentations. If you look like you know your stuff, they will trust you even if you don't have the resume to back it up.
Ah yes, of course! Poor choice of words. I was translating from telepathy, after all.
Maybe that explains the reason way all space aliens described by abductees resemble asexual unitard-wearing eunuchs! Maybe they're asexual unitard-wearing eunuchs from OUR OWN future! "Attention, devolved human from our past timeline: where may we find Mars?"
My problem with this franchise from the beginning of TNG is there are no realistic characters anywhere to be found. Think about it: the reason we love Serenity and Battlestar is because the characters are fallible. They swear, (frak!), sweat, make bad descisions, and occaisionally think with the wrong head. When the sh*t hits the fan, their military (yes, kids, StarFLEET is supposed to be a military organization) training kicks in and they get serious. (Remember when Kirk was hell-bent to start a war with the Klingons on Organia? Spock never said that wasn't a good idea. They just followed orders.)
The reason the alternate universe trek stories are so much fun is all the characters are more realistic -- granted, aggressive, but real.
Ten years of Trek can't measure up to the moment when Adama told his Master Seargent that a good man was in the brig because he couldn't keep his fly zipped.
I think Berman is more of an investment banker then a writer.
The best part was all the free resources I found on the Internet to help me. Someone somewhere posted a step-by-step tutorial for replacing the disk. It was simple to upgrade the memory. And the Linux installation was actually quite simple also. (I'm ashamed to say I'm a Linux newbie.) There's a site somewhere listing all the configuration steps required to tune Linux for the 505, most of which I didn't really need.
Its funny you posted this. I've just delved into this for the first time with the old Handspring Visor I've been toting around. I paid $100 for it when it was new, but I just picked one up at a yard sale for $15. (Both 8MB) I used the Weasel reader, so I don't have to pay anything for that. (Although it doesn't like my version of ZLib. Throws a warning message but continues all right.) I've been reading Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow and I got a copy of Free Cultre by Lessig. The Visor has a backlight that lets me read without waking up the Mrs. Its been a lot of fun for me because this is the first time I've really applied open source software. I've *read* about it all over the place, but this was the first time I ever really found a *personal* benefit. I've seen Tiger Direct advertising old Palms for $45. Doesn't seem to take much to get into the OSS EBook thing.
Elwood: I bet these cops got SCMODS.
Jake: SCMODS?
Elwood: State County Municipal Offender Data System.
I consider it a human rights abuse that I've got to work all weekend because Microsoft VB makes it so easy for crummy hackers think they're software designers.