Actually, as a former Chicago resident, i also thought the plates were illinois at first. the script was the same, but the text was actually "Gotham". pretty funny considering gotham is a city, but still...
"dont sign" is not always an option. my first job out of school was at a proprietary trading firm where we did not have non-competes. at the end of my second year, we were presented non-compete forms which we were REQUIRED to sign in order to have our bonuses disclosed to us. in that industry, your bonus can be anywhere from 50-90% (or more) of your total pay, so I would have been forgoing a lot of cash by not signing. pretty much extortion, yes, but thats the biz.
i dont understand the obsession with not working more than 40 hours a week. the 8 hour work day was invented in the days when a "work day" entailed manual labor. being out in a field with a horse and a ho and plowing an acre (the amount of land a man and a horse could plow in a day. which invariably ended in aches and pains, hence "acre"). we live in a world of computers and herman miller chairs, ergonomic this and ergonomic that. while i understand that there is a need to have a home life, and we should not all be tied to our desks 24 hours a day. but - unless i am completely mistaken, and i might be - 40 hour work weeks in this day and age are completely arbitrary. i completely agree with the OP saying 55 hours. or 45. 50. but this notion of 40 being a standard - let's not kid ourselves. what we desk jockeys do does not lend itself to the notion of a 40 hour week. we are presumably all college educated, and in college this nebulous idea of a standard work week would have gotten me laughed at.
My story is very similar. I obtained a 3.8 or something while being the only student in my class to take every AP course offered. The high honors went to other students who took easier courses and they probably had a better choice of schools and scholarships as a result
i personally get the feeling that the top students in most top universities and scholarship programs took the hardest courses and managed to get 4.0 regardless. of course, every high school is different.
Would you date a girl that would likely require you to move into her 12x10 bedroom with cinderella sheets, n'sync posters, barbies on the shelves and her nutty parents across the hallway? How she looks and acts would barely come into play.
microsoft absolutely did NOT profit when they sold him the xbox... they lost about $100. this is why they take piracy so seriously on the thing: games are the only way they can make money..
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this will sound stupid, but i swear it's true. i am a 22 year old MIT grad turned software developer, and i learned to touch type via AOL chat rooms and instant messenger when i was in middle school. no typing classes, no fancy keyboards... it just gets hard to keep up 5 IM conversations and at some point it just clicks and your fingers start doing all the work for you. believe it or not, i think this is becoming more and more common for kids... but maybe that's just the crowd i hung around with:)
I believe we use TAQ at a cost of approx. $800 US per month. But that's hardly even an afterthought in this business... things like Bloomberg terminals for news and quotes run around $1600 US per month per terminal. It's a dog eat dog biz.
So AOL got into broadband b/c their dialup business was getting spanked by it... and now they are dropping the broadband and riding the 56k modem wave out? WTF???
Someone mentioned that soon we'd be calling every ridiculous patent case a kodak moment. Here's to the first of many, many, MANY kodak moments to come!:-(
well... the fact that google registered "gbrowser.com" was enough to make a LOT of people go "oooh, google browser coming out." so, yeah, maybe "G" does constitute a brand.
as an interesting aside, i guess when you hear of something "iXXX" coming out, you don't think of apple, do you? seems to me like "i" constitutes a brand, so why not "G?"
They registered Gbrowser.com for the same reason they turned "www.googlegear.com" into "www.zipzoomfly.com." They don't want some schmuck grabbing names that might be related to them, and bogarting off their brand recognition. Just my 2 cents on the matter.
They will try it out, get turned off by the minor differences (such as tabs), and then switch back to IE
how does one get turned off by a feature that is totally non-intrusive if you want it to be? it's not like firefox forces you to use tabs. but for the people out there (like myself) who never knew what they were missing, it may be a very welcomed change and a reason to leave IE for good.
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Actually, as a former Chicago resident, i also thought the plates were illinois at first. the script was the same, but the text was actually "Gotham". pretty funny considering gotham is a city, but still...
"dont sign" is not always an option. my first job out of school was at a proprietary trading firm where we did not have non-competes. at the end of my second year, we were presented non-compete forms which we were REQUIRED to sign in order to have our bonuses disclosed to us. in that industry, your bonus can be anywhere from 50-90% (or more) of your total pay, so I would have been forgoing a lot of cash by not signing. pretty much extortion, yes, but thats the biz.
i dont understand the obsession with not working more than 40 hours a week. the 8 hour work day was invented in the days when a "work day" entailed manual labor. being out in a field with a horse and a ho and plowing an acre (the amount of land a man and a horse could plow in a day. which invariably ended in aches and pains, hence "acre"). we live in a world of computers and herman miller chairs, ergonomic this and ergonomic that. while i understand that there is a need to have a home life, and we should not all be tied to our desks 24 hours a day. but - unless i am completely mistaken, and i might be - 40 hour work weeks in this day and age are completely arbitrary. i completely agree with the OP saying 55 hours. or 45. 50. but this notion of 40 being a standard - let's not kid ourselves. what we desk jockeys do does not lend itself to the notion of a 40 hour week. we are presumably all college educated, and in college this nebulous idea of a standard work week would have gotten me laughed at.
i personally get the feeling that the top students in most top universities and scholarship programs took the hardest courses and managed to get 4.0 regardless. of course, every high school is different.
i believe AMEX advertises "no preset spending limit." this is not the same as "no limit"
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i forget, is that the good korea or the bad korea?
Would you date a girl that would likely require you to move into her 12x10 bedroom with cinderella sheets, n'sync posters, barbies on the shelves and her nutty parents across the hallway? How she looks and acts would barely come into play.
Yes.
microsoft absolutely did NOT profit when they sold him the xbox... they lost about $100. this is why they take piracy so seriously on the thing: games are the only way they can make money..
this will sound stupid, but i swear it's true. i am a 22 year old MIT grad turned software developer, and i learned to touch type via AOL chat rooms and instant messenger when i was in middle school. no typing classes, no fancy keyboards... it just gets hard to keep up 5 IM conversations and at some point it just clicks and your fingers start doing all the work for you. believe it or not, i think this is becoming more and more common for kids... but maybe that's just the crowd i hung around with :)
"./" huh? you should be stoned.
my friends all say my number 2's are pretty deadly...
The tax rate in the U.S. is now 90%.
But if you don't like that, just move to a new country.
Clearly has nothing to do with your, "rights."
On Google - enter "1,500,000 miles per hour in feet per second", then seach for "speed of light in feet per second."
or "speed of light in miles per hour"... but i guess that was just too obvious.
...every economy seat on an airplane is bought for the same price too.
I believe we use TAQ at a cost of approx. $800 US per month. But that's hardly even an afterthought in this business... things like Bloomberg terminals for news and quotes run around $1600 US per month per terminal. It's a dog eat dog biz.
in other news, teresa heinz-kerry, wife of former presidential candidate john kerry, is now the principle share-holder of AOL corp.
So AOL got into broadband b/c their dialup business was getting spanked by it... and now they are dropping the broadband and riding the 56k modem wave out? WTF???
am i the only one who sees how FUCKING HARD it would be to watch porn AND _uhhh_ *enjoy* said porn, in this manner? ;)
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if ever a post begged for a link, this is it! ;)
Someone mentioned that soon we'd be calling every ridiculous patent case a kodak moment. Here's to the first of many, many, MANY kodak moments to come! :-(
The term is "Could NOT care less"! Saying you "Could care less" implies that you do indeed care
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but i could care less...
If I saw an ad for GDonuts I wouldn't think of google.
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you're right, neither would i. but did you stop to think that maybe they want us to?
well... the fact that google registered "gbrowser.com" was enough to make a LOT of people go "oooh, google browser coming out." so, yeah, maybe "G" does constitute a brand.
as an interesting aside, i guess when you hear of something "iXXX" coming out, you don't think of apple, do you? seems to me like "i" constitutes a brand, so why not "G?"
They registered Gbrowser.com for the same reason they turned "www.googlegear.com" into "www.zipzoomfly.com." They don't want some schmuck grabbing names that might be related to them, and bogarting off their brand recognition. Just my 2 cents on the matter.
They will try it out, get turned off by the minor differences (such as tabs), and then switch back to IE
how does one get turned off by a feature that is totally non-intrusive if you want it to be? it's not like firefox forces you to use tabs. but for the people out there (like myself) who never knew what they were missing, it may be a very welcomed change and a reason to leave IE for good.