Yeah, it is going to be tough for you. I have been programming since the mid-1970's and over the last 10 years or so, I have found it difficult to get good paying jobs. And, these are jobs where I have the skill set and know the language. Companies want to pay noobs right out of school a pittance rather than pay an older, experienced programmer what their skill and experience is worth. Even if I can finish the job in a fraction of the time required by the noobs.
If you are older, you need to be an owner in a software business if you want to get in coding time. And, if your skills aren't that current, you should just focus on the management end of it.
You are going to make more money, faster, by putting on the blue jacket and practicing your smile and welcome.
Agreed. I almost registered on the site to bemoan the poor quality of the article and berate the author for doing such a shoddy job. But then I figured that I would just be feeding that beast, and they don't deserve it.
How could anyone who ever managed a UUCP site in the late 1980's forget the TeleBit Trailblazers? Yet the article made no mention of the Trailblazers or even trellis encoding. I loved the fact that the Trailblazers could give me a graph of my phone lines at the various frequencies.
Fuck 'em, lets just skip 2010 and go right to 2011.
Or, do what I do. Ignore the Olymp!c$. They are nothing but outrageous profiteering by the IOC which fosters nationalistic fighting, and are totally funded off the backs of the poor in the host countries.
Until they go back to nude amateur wrestlers vying for the right to wear a crown of olive branches, just ignore them.
E-mail is a tool, just like a hammer. You don't throw away your hammers and start over if you hit your thumb. You also don't use a screwdriver to drive in nails.
1. Learn to use the tools.
2. Use good spam filters to toast unwanted mail and message filters to organize your e-mail.
3. Get some discipline about when to read and reply to e-mail.
4. Let the rest go and practice deep healing breaths.
After all, it is only e-mail.
This has always been an indication of the ignorance of the people throwing that marketing-kidnapped term around. 'Broadband' has a specific meaning already, that has nothing to do with 'speed'. If they want to define classes of connection 'speed', why not add BPS designations to terms such as 'high-speed', 'mid-speed', 'low-speed', and 'so-frickin-slow-speed'?
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Yeah, it is going to be tough for you. I have been programming since the mid-1970's and over the last 10 years or so, I have found it difficult to get good paying jobs. And, these are jobs where I have the skill set and know the language. Companies want to pay noobs right out of school a pittance rather than pay an older, experienced programmer what their skill and experience is worth. Even if I can finish the job in a fraction of the time required by the noobs. If you are older, you need to be an owner in a software business if you want to get in coding time. And, if your skills aren't that current, you should just focus on the management end of it. You are going to make more money, faster, by putting on the blue jacket and practicing your smile and welcome.
Do you want a Hayes Smartmodem 1200 in the box?
Agreed. I almost registered on the site to bemoan the poor quality of the article and berate the author for doing such a shoddy job. But then I figured that I would just be feeding that beast, and they don't deserve it. How could anyone who ever managed a UUCP site in the late 1980's forget the TeleBit Trailblazers? Yet the article made no mention of the Trailblazers or even trellis encoding. I loved the fact that the Trailblazers could give me a graph of my phone lines at the various frequencies.
I agree with RMS. That is a sure sign of the Apocalypse. Time to restock the cabin in Utah.
Fuck 'em, lets just skip 2010 and go right to 2011. Or, do what I do. Ignore the Olymp!c$. They are nothing but outrageous profiteering by the IOC which fosters nationalistic fighting, and are totally funded off the backs of the poor in the host countries. Until they go back to nude amateur wrestlers vying for the right to wear a crown of olive branches, just ignore them.
E-mail is a tool, just like a hammer. You don't throw away your hammers and start over if you hit your thumb. You also don't use a screwdriver to drive in nails. 1. Learn to use the tools. 2. Use good spam filters to toast unwanted mail and message filters to organize your e-mail. 3. Get some discipline about when to read and reply to e-mail. 4. Let the rest go and practice deep healing breaths. After all, it is only e-mail.
This has always been an indication of the ignorance of the people throwing that marketing-kidnapped term around. 'Broadband' has a specific meaning already, that has nothing to do with 'speed'. If they want to define classes of connection 'speed', why not add BPS designations to terms such as 'high-speed', 'mid-speed', 'low-speed', and 'so-frickin-slow-speed'?
There are valid uses for XML. Just look at http://www.x-cp.org/