What? Are you sure you've used PowerShell? PowerShell scripting gives you access to pretty much all the.NET framework libraries, and all the usual programming concepts that you'd want in any useful language. It's f'ing awesome, actually. There are a number of good tutorials and webcasts available via MSDN.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" It's funny because it's true. It's also sad because it's true.
I have a few friends at both places. At MS, the style and topics of an interview can change from team to team, and from internal organization to organization. From what I hear, at Google it's a little different in that you get interviewed by a wide variety of folks, and then teams "bid" on you based on your interview results and strengths/weaknesses, so the technical interview experience there is largely the same for every candidate.
Uh... already they do make hardware, and they've sold tens of millions of units to end users - the XBox. I'm pretty sure Microsoft can handle this. Microsoft is also no stranger to lawsuits:)
Why not work on an Android App of some kind? Download the Android SDK! It's free, the Eclipse development environment is free, and the SDK even has a really nice emulator so you can run your Apps even if you don't have an Android phone.
Try Ham Radio. You no longer have to learn Morse Code to get a license. It allows some room for tinkering with equipment. I'm sure you can find local groups who can help you get started, and find cheap equipment on craigslist. Once you're started, you can hook up cheap used logic analyzers to look at signals and stuff. Hell... you can even spin the hobby toward radio astronomy. Need a further challenge? See who you can find on 5 watts or less... 1 watt or less!
Maybe you could get a teaching degree? Teach kids computer and programming skills?
Also, sorry to ask, but with a 39 year career in and around the tech industry, why are you still working? What went wrong with retirement? I ask only because I'm in the same industry and don't want to work for 39 years (even thought I like what I do). If you made one critical mistake that cost you your retirement and wish to share it, many of us here could probably benefit from your 20/20 hindsight.
Huh, there seems to be very little truth in your statement. I have a friend who was on their show about three years ago. She left just a little bit of info in a voicemail when she called (name, phone number, car type, and a very short 20 or 30 second statement of the problem) - which I guess is how their screening process works. They called her back in a day or so (along with a number of other people) when they were taping the show, and she got to talk with Tom and Ray almost immediately. Nothing was scripted. The actual segment they recorded with her didn't make it on the air for months though...
How the fuck is that a liberal bias in topics? Those are important topics to be aware of and discuss. Are you implying that conservatives shouldn't discuss these kinds of things?
Sorry, but how is it a nanny state when the initiative is put to the voters, and the voters approve it? Californians have done this to themselves, nobody dictated it to them. This isn't being approved by some council or legislative body, it's going to be approved directly by the citizens of California. It's reasonably easy to get voter initiatives on the ballot. I'd wager that very few voters get beyond reading a bill name like "Stop Poisoning Children and Making Them Obese and Die Early of Horrible Diseases Bill" and actually read the text of the proposed law. They just rubber stamp it in the voting booth. Voter initiatives also explain a lot of their budget crisis, too.
When I was a kid, I had a friend who was homeschooled (our parents were mutual friends, and we'd play together quite a bit). He dropped out of high school, ended up getting a GED, and to this day is barely able to hold a part time job. His sibling hasn't fared much better. Anecdotal evidence should be given less weight when forming an opinion.
I tried Windows 8 on a netbook that has a touchscreen display... perfect for Windows 8, right?!! However, my netbook's display has a max resolution of 1024x600. Unfortunately, all the nice fancy new buttony looking Metro apps enforce a minimum resolution of something like 1024x768 and will not run if you're monitor doesn't support that resolution. This means that every single damn button/app/whatever-they-call-it on the default Windows 8 Metro UI didn't work. I can understand why Microsoft would enforce minimum requirements, but still...
This should not have been modded Funny - it should have been modded Insightful. California is a massive economy whose laws often affect policy across the entire US. It's also one of the easier states to take mandates directly to the voter (of course, that's helped contribute to their budget problems, and the weird warnings about cancer you see at Starbucks, but hey, it will be a Good Thing (tm) (R) in this case!).
The first age was where the gods created the world, but the animals and humans could not speak and so were unable to worship the gods. In the second age, the gods created humans out of mud, then in the third, out of wood. The gods were not pleased with either of these, so they wiped them out and started over - in the fourth age where we are now. This whole 2012 thing is simply the end of the fourth epoch of the Mayan calendar.
Cool! So we're going to get wiped out, but also get a major upgrade? This sounds like the beginning of the technological singularity!
Undoing mod points, but I have to add to your point here. More snow actually might mean warmer temperatures as well. The ability of air to carry moisture is greater at warmer temperatures, so more snow in a cold region might be a good indicator that the temperature has increased in that region.
Men's basketball brings in $2 million. All others sports account for $-16 million. Their booster club does bring in a lot, at $36 million! But that aside... Florida’s athletic department receives about $2.5 million from student fees and other $2 million from the state, which were not cut. Computer Science was.
I think you're mistaken. Their athletic department costs the university over $100+ million per year, but only generates about half that in revenue (see this handy link). Maybe they couldn't come up with the head coach's bonus this year (he got something like $2.5 million)?
No, I meant trillions. It was over two billion British pounds of raw wealth goods before the 1920's, cumulative over 150+ years, with a lot of the wealth drain coming early on, which works out to well over a trillion dollars if you normalize over that period and adjust for inflation. And that's just for trade deficit to Britain for raw goods and precious metals. It does not include the fact that up to 40% of India's entire budget was spent on their military, which was under British control at the time, and was "the backbone of the power of the British empire". Yes, Britain did some good things in India, but it was a huge net loss for them. You can start reading about it here, and work your way out from there. An AC using a term like "utter rubbish".. heh... I don't know many people outside the UK who use terms like that;-)
They can thank about a hundred years of British rule for driving them in to poverty. India was among the wealthiest countries on earth until the British showed up and proceeded to siphon trillions of dollars (in today's terms) of raw wealth like gold, precious metals, and gems, from them. Want to see a small example of India's former wealth? Look no further than the crown that sat upon the late Queen Elizabeth's head. The world would look totally different today if Britain wasn't able to steal from India to help get them through two world wars.
India's continued investment to prove that they can keep up with powerful western nations will only help prop up their nation as a whole, and help lift all out of poverty over time. Count the poor on the streets of Bangalore (a major IT hub), and compare it with other Indian cities that haven't see the same level of investment, like Calcutta, and you'll see what first hand what it can do.
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What? Are you sure you've used PowerShell? PowerShell scripting gives you access to pretty much all the .NET framework libraries, and all the usual programming concepts that you'd want in any useful language. It's f'ing awesome, actually. There are a number of good tutorials and webcasts available via MSDN.
...and in this case, it's "tens of thousands of dollars".
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" It's funny because it's true. It's also sad because it's true.
I have a few friends at both places. At MS, the style and topics of an interview can change from team to team, and from internal organization to organization. From what I hear, at Google it's a little different in that you get interviewed by a wide variety of folks, and then teams "bid" on you based on your interview results and strengths/weaknesses, so the technical interview experience there is largely the same for every candidate.
Uh... already they do make hardware, and they've sold tens of millions of units to end users - the XBox. I'm pretty sure Microsoft can handle this. Microsoft is also no stranger to lawsuits :)
Why not work on an Android App of some kind? Download the Android SDK! It's free, the Eclipse development environment is free, and the SDK even has a really nice emulator so you can run your Apps even if you don't have an Android phone.
Try Ham Radio. You no longer have to learn Morse Code to get a license. It allows some room for tinkering with equipment. I'm sure you can find local groups who can help you get started, and find cheap equipment on craigslist. Once you're started, you can hook up cheap used logic analyzers to look at signals and stuff. Hell... you can even spin the hobby toward radio astronomy. Need a further challenge? See who you can find on 5 watts or less... 1 watt or less!
Maybe you could get a teaching degree? Teach kids computer and programming skills?
Also, sorry to ask, but with a 39 year career in and around the tech industry, why are you still working? What went wrong with retirement? I ask only because I'm in the same industry and don't want to work for 39 years (even thought I like what I do). If you made one critical mistake that cost you your retirement and wish to share it, many of us here could probably benefit from your 20/20 hindsight.
Huh, there seems to be very little truth in your statement. I have a friend who was on their show about three years ago. She left just a little bit of info in a voicemail when she called (name, phone number, car type, and a very short 20 or 30 second statement of the problem) - which I guess is how their screening process works. They called her back in a day or so (along with a number of other people) when they were taping the show, and she got to talk with Tom and Ray almost immediately. Nothing was scripted. The actual segment they recorded with her didn't make it on the air for months though...
How the fuck is that a liberal bias in topics? Those are important topics to be aware of and discuss. Are you implying that conservatives shouldn't discuss these kinds of things?
Sorry, but how is it a nanny state when the initiative is put to the voters, and the voters approve it? Californians have done this to themselves, nobody dictated it to them. This isn't being approved by some council or legislative body, it's going to be approved directly by the citizens of California. It's reasonably easy to get voter initiatives on the ballot. I'd wager that very few voters get beyond reading a bill name like "Stop Poisoning Children and Making Them Obese and Die Early of Horrible Diseases Bill" and actually read the text of the proposed law. They just rubber stamp it in the voting booth. Voter initiatives also explain a lot of their budget crisis, too.
When I was a kid, I had a friend who was homeschooled (our parents were mutual friends, and we'd play together quite a bit). He dropped out of high school, ended up getting a GED, and to this day is barely able to hold a part time job. His sibling hasn't fared much better. Anecdotal evidence should be given less weight when forming an opinion.
Somebody please mod this up. This does not deserve the 1 that it has.
...be so wrong?
I tried Windows 8 on a netbook that has a touchscreen display... perfect for Windows 8, right?!! However, my netbook's display has a max resolution of 1024x600. Unfortunately, all the nice fancy new buttony looking Metro apps enforce a minimum resolution of something like 1024x768 and will not run if you're monitor doesn't support that resolution. This means that every single damn button/app/whatever-they-call-it on the default Windows 8 Metro UI didn't work. I can understand why Microsoft would enforce minimum requirements, but still...
This should not have been modded Funny - it should have been modded Insightful. California is a massive economy whose laws often affect policy across the entire US. It's also one of the easier states to take mandates directly to the voter (of course, that's helped contribute to their budget problems, and the weird warnings about cancer you see at Starbucks, but hey, it will be a Good Thing (tm) (R) in this case!).
Cool! So we're going to get wiped out, but also get a major upgrade? This sounds like the beginning of the technological singularity!
This is not that.
Undoing mod points, but I have to add to your point here. More snow actually might mean warmer temperatures as well. The ability of air to carry moisture is greater at warmer temperatures, so more snow in a cold region might be a good indicator that the temperature has increased in that region.
Men's basketball brings in $2 million. All others sports account for $-16 million. Their booster club does bring in a lot, at $36 million! But that aside... Florida’s athletic department receives about $2.5 million from student fees and other $2 million from the state, which were not cut. Computer Science was.
I think you're mistaken. Their athletic department costs the university over $100+ million per year, but only generates about half that in revenue (see this handy link). Maybe they couldn't come up with the head coach's bonus this year (he got something like $2.5 million)?
No, I meant trillions. It was over two billion British pounds of raw wealth goods before the 1920's, cumulative over 150+ years, with a lot of the wealth drain coming early on, which works out to well over a trillion dollars if you normalize over that period and adjust for inflation. And that's just for trade deficit to Britain for raw goods and precious metals. It does not include the fact that up to 40% of India's entire budget was spent on their military, which was under British control at the time, and was "the backbone of the power of the British empire". Yes, Britain did some good things in India, but it was a huge net loss for them. You can start reading about it here, and work your way out from there. An AC using a term like "utter rubbish".. heh... I don't know many people outside the UK who use terms like that ;-)
They can thank about a hundred years of British rule for driving them in to poverty. India was among the wealthiest countries on earth until the British showed up and proceeded to siphon trillions of dollars (in today's terms) of raw wealth like gold, precious metals, and gems, from them. Want to see a small example of India's former wealth? Look no further than the crown that sat upon the late Queen Elizabeth's head. The world would look totally different today if Britain wasn't able to steal from India to help get them through two world wars.
India's continued investment to prove that they can keep up with powerful western nations will only help prop up their nation as a whole, and help lift all out of poverty over time. Count the poor on the streets of Bangalore (a major IT hub), and compare it with other Indian cities that haven't see the same level of investment, like Calcutta, and you'll see what first hand what it can do.
I only RTFAs to find out how high the waves were - it turns out they were up to 29.1 meters (95.5 feet).
"Fresh" implies change, and conservatives are scared of change.