If there are any problems at all with the 360's, then only a small percentage of potential buyers will have purchased it when it starts.
Personally, I do not see the value in buying ANYTHING on release day any more. Frequently if you wait as little as a month, you can get the same product for 25% off. If you wait six months, you can almost always get 2 for 1.
They were really rude and the supervisors didn't give a damn and I got really pissed off. In another few years I probably won't even remember why I'm mad (it was a minor matter of a less than 30 bucks and really more about getting an apology that they boned me and I told them at the time it would probably cost them future purchases and pointed out the couple thousand bucks of electronics I had previously purchased from them).
I agree with your point from a point of extreme precision.
However the computer situation is more akin to having GM and Delorean, not GM and Ford. Given the apple situation (where microsoft actually gave them money to prop them up), it would be like calling the above auto market an oligopoly when GM was giving Delorean money so it would not declare bankruptcy.
Microsoft had a unique ability that GM lacked. They can change the 'road' to be a foot narrower without warning- making other peoples 'cars' non-functional until they adapt them to the new roads.
I havn't bought a Sony product since 2001 when they were grossly rude to me during a customer service related call.
So yes, it's very easy to boycott sony.
Hmm. I guess except movies- I may have seen a columbia picture at the theatres. I know for some I have bought a ticket to movie "B" and then seen movie "A" instead to avoid them getting my cash.
First let me say that Jar Jar was one of the few GOOD things about the first movie.
Star Wars IV was all about character conflict. The characters were constantly arguing with each other. This led to a lot of humorous situations. It was also targeted at 13+ year old people. It had no scenes that felt like they were added to the movie to sell merchandise. Finally, the actors were really good and you believed the emotions they were feeling.
Star Wars I had no character conflict. Even during the big battle, Darth Maul said nothing. They just fought, stared at each other, sat passively and meditated, and then fought some more. The only character conflict in the movie was when Jar Jar actually got a rise out of Gui Qon (sp) and he irritably told Jar Jar to stop spearing the fruit with his tongue. It was targeted at 6 year olds. It had many scenes that said, "Come this christmas to buy these toys!" The actors were pretty much sucked which was odd because most were good in other pictures. Palpatine owned every scene he was in.
Other than that... Here are the number of times I have seen the movies... SW Rating Seen
I (3) - 1 (will never see it again or purchase it)
II (7) - 1 (might see it again every 10 years or so) III (6) - 1 (might see it again every 15 years or so)
IV (10) - 17
V (10) - 13-14
VI (10*/4) - 2(7*) * the "good" first half- I turn it off now when it gets to kiddyland.
The basic problem is that Lucas 1) sold out. 2) retargeted the films at 6 year olds & the toy market. 3) is poor at directing actors. 4) Got everything he ever wished for and as a result lost all self control.
And I do agree that there was no mystery since we knew anakin would fall.
Finally, I personally found it a bit cheesy that out of all the storm troopers, not one formed a bond of loyalty with the people they were fighting beside and revealed the plan. I'll assume that it was a post hypnotic suggestion for now. But despite being clones they -are- human. It seems like a few hard fought battles beside particular jedi would cause them to become friends.
All right now, being popular (making bucks) isn't the same thing as being good. It just means it is liked by the age group that dominates movie going. SawII probably had a slight edge due to it being Halloween too.
I don't think they can shut down dvd quality work. I think they might be able to shut down broadcast quality work unless they are opposed. Even that is unlikely since it is only about 5k to get fairly decent cameras.
But I bet they have reasonable odds of locking out the low end of the market.
Microsoft was bad almost before linus was born. Back in the beginning we all said, "Dos isn't ready until Lotus 1.2.3 won't run." Windows specifically checked for DRDos and failed with a hard error if drdos was installed. If you disabled the check, windows ran fine. The entire purpose of the check was to spike a dos competitor. Even back then you knew that if you used microsoft that other products might break with each release of the operating system if they were major competitors of microsoft.
and p.s..net pissed off a lot of microsoft vb developers/supporters when they dumped support for vb6 without an upgrade path.
Sorry to bust your balloon but microsoft is fundamentally dedicated to a world where everyone pays a monthly subscription for microsoft products and there are no competitors and any potential competitors are locked out before they can even get started.
Fooled me once, shame on me- fooled me at least 15 to 20 times- well I guess I should assume you are trying to fool me on any future attempts. (convicted of stealing competitors products, well known tendency of breaking competitors products by tweaking the operating system, well known tendency to slow competitors products by tweaking the operating system or using illegal API's and still certifying product, bundling, giving away products for free until the competition is dead then never innovating, "embracing and extending" java, j++, the halloween memoes, "collaborating" on products with a competitor and then bringing out their own version using knowledge they picked up during the collaboration, etc. etc. etc.).
They are not just another large capitalist company. They are something unique and they want to lock that in forever. They bought or drove out of business every legitimate business that competed with them either legally or illegally (Stak/doublespace comes to mind- there are others).
Trust me, you don't know it but you really do want 4 to 5 solid OS's competing with many different products so that they keep each other honest.
It should not matter. I think we should be able to create anything we can afford the hardware for.
But I think if Riaa can get something passed, it will be there. They will argue something along the lines of, "Ordinary people don't need to be able to create video's with enough detail to display on a 40x60 foot screen. Only pirates need to do that. Here is $100,000 for your next campaign!"
Terrorists intentionally attack civilians for the purpose of creating fear.
Freedom fighters intentionally attack soldiers (including police officers) and members of the opposing political organization.
For example, I would say that Palestians who kill Isreali soldiers and politicians are freedom fighters while those who kill Isreali 13 year olds are terrorists.
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Personally, I feel in any slow, ongoing conflict we should give both sides weapons and have them fight openly til one side concedes the point, whatever it is.
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As far as video... Pirates in other countries won't be affected by this crap so they will continue to do as they please. As a result, P2P won't be affected either. Most "rich" people in the U.S. won't be affected either (since for 3x the bucks you can buy a dvd player that ignore regions and has macrovision easily disabled).
--- Official pirates who sell the material seem to not be an issue in the US. Here it is free when pirated. In china it is 2.45 pirated. --- Last point- it is about the money. RIAA wants to continue to make 1st world profits in the 1st world while being able to sell the same exact product in the 2nd and 3rd worlds for reduced prices. A false monopoly- completely against the capitalist model. In real capitalism, the price of movies and songs would be roughly the same everywhere. So if RIAA sells something for 3.95, they would find it impossible to sell it for 19.95 elsewhere because folks would buy the cheaper copy and resell it at 4.95 undercutting the 19.95 price.
Their model is broken. 1) Increasing glut of songs/movies. 2) Increasing glut of cheap labor. 3) Decreasing wages in the 1st world as we average out with the 2nd/3rd worlds.
On that last point- at some time indian workers and american workers (and albanian workers, chinese workers, etc.) are all going to make basically the same wages. Probably within the next 20 years. It's going to be bloody painful getting to that point.
Are the bandwidth providers going to start trying to charge different fees depending on what TYPE of data I want to send and receive through the pipe that I AM PAYING FOR?
What he is saying is... Not A better example would be if Linus Torvalds said "I ran a test that demonstrates Linux booting 25% faster than Windows on the same hardware," and Bill Gates responded with "My tests show that Windows boots 15% faster than Linux on the same hardware."
But A better example would be if Linus Torvalds said "I ran a test and it demonstrates Windows booting 25% faster than Linux on the same hardware," and Bill Gates responded with "I hate to say it but my tests show that Linux boots 15% faster than Windows on the same hardware."
Similarly If George Ou said, "I tested Openoffice and it blew Word away." Folks would believe him because he supports windows and disses opensource and such a statement is probably honest and after he checked everything. For George to say Windows stuff is good is almost a non-statement because he has no credibility any more. He spent it all by being relentlessly pro-windows and anti-linux / open source over the course of several years.
On the general subject, as someone else said: OO really is slower and uses more memory because it does things in software that Word and Excel can ask the operating system for. That's a minus for OO. Word and Excel really are proprietary and require you to pay more money every year or two for an upgrade. That's a minus for them. Word and Excel really do lock you into windows while OO runs on most OS. Windows intends to go to a subscription model where you have to pay money every month to get current patches. Another minus for them.
I think George Ou would need to use both applications for the first time on a system which they had not been used before. Or George would need to use Openoffice and Word daily for a month. Since he uses microsoft products, his will already be set up to cache. Since he does not use Openoffice, it will not be cached.
If neither were used or both were used for a reasonable period before the test, then they might perform differently.
Knowing Microsoft, there is also the distinct possibility that it pre-caches it's own applications even if they are not used. And finally, there may be parts of their functionality (like text window management) built into the OS which cannot be used by system agnostic software. They would be -risky- to use, since Microsoft has changed such things in the past without warning breaking competing apps that used microsoft operating system features while not breaking their own applications.
All that being said, I speculate that OO programmers are more "theory" type and program pretty code that performs poorly while Microsoft programmers are more pragamatic programmers who are comfortable writing down and dirty and fast/efficient code in the 1% of the program where it's needed. Likewise, I bet Microsoft has better profilers. And finally, Microsoft has had a longer period to clean out grossly inefficient things.
OO will continue getting better. OO will continue to be free. OO will not lock you into an operating system. You will never have to "rent" OO. You will never be ratted out by OO to microsoft (Word hasn't done this but XP sends a lot of messages home and even reboots my system without asking me to apply patches). Finally, hardware and ram continue to get more powerful. In a couple years, the difference will be between 100 and 200 megabytes of your 8 gigabytes of memory and.2 and 2 seconds on your 8ghz (or dual core 4ghz) machine.
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I've been out of college for 14 years now. I almost never use a pen or pencile any more. There is a permanent dent on my right middle finger.
And I have carpal tunnel. The doc says- "If you want it to stop- stop typing."
First, mining, smelting, transporting these metals is going to cause pollution.
But any hydrogen based car system is going to dump a lot of water into the environment if everyone goes to hydrogen. I wonder with 200 million cars if the water/water vapor is going to act as a pollutant, encourage mold growth, etc.
I mostly agree with you but the new Napster is charging and it is finding customers.
There are a lot of people who prefer to pay a small amount for piece of mind that they won't be busted and impoverished (even if the odds are worse than many lotteries).
There had been many previous complaints that mcdonalds had settled so they knew it was an issue.
The burns were very bad burns- not just "oh I spilled hot coffee" burns.
The coffee was an insane temperature (like 175 degrees).
The key fact is that it was a known problem mcdonalds had not fixed. It's like having a 3' fence around your pool. You may not be liable the first time some kid drowns but after that you know it is a problem and you are liable the second time one drowns if you ignored the problem.
I work in an office full of females. Many are managers. Even on the Indian teams, they have female managers and leads. The main issue I see in the DP field is age discrimination. I'm saving for retirement and working on my career path on the presumption that at 55, I will be unable to find work in the field as a programmer.
I guess it depends on where you work. The lack of a degree may be preventing you from getting work in larger corporations- many larger corporations pretty much require a degree and 4+ years experience to get an interview unless they are hiring you straight out of college.
Last study I read showed that people who changed jobs every 2 years made 25% more after 10 years.
My pay grew about 8% while staying at one company getting my degree and went up over 15% a year for several years when I finally started changing companies.
Currently hunkered down tho- I'm at the top until I get a shot a manager position. At this level there are 5 qualified people for every promotion so moving up is much slower.
That pay sounds really low considering how expensive San Diego is. Not kidding- it sounds really seriously low compared to the midwest.
1) Go to college. 2) Take your "core" first- they apply to all degrees. 3) Unless you are brilliant or extremely driven, just get a business degree. 4) Make sure you get at least a 3.0 GPA (Higher is better). 5) Join a fraternity (networking/connections). 6) Go to parties (have fun while you are young and healthy).
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CS sucks- all the jobs are going overseas. There is no future in it unless you are brilliant.
Basic facts: If you know how to program- you can do it from anywhere. If you know the particular business rules you are dealing with, you have value. So learn a lot about businesses that are too small to offshore work and you may have a shot. Any large business has unlimited "decent/code monkey" programmers at $5k to $10k per year- until their wages come up or ours go down- you are not going to find work here.
The pay in business is much better than video gaming but it is dropping or staying the same in the face of 3-4% inflation.
--- Never trust promises from managers. They have no control and they are probably lying if they do. Always remember you are a COST to the company and the second you stop having value you will simply be let go. Save save save.
Well... since you what you harvest most of the time is mature seeds, I think you have a lot more seeds at harvest time than you do at sowing time. You hold some seeds back from the harvest to plant at next planting season.
Some programmers got rich shaving pennies from otherwise correct code.
Without access to the source, there is no way to prove that quickly turning the machine on and off 3 times won't cause it to over or underreport the next test.
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If there are any problems at all with the 360's, then only a small percentage of potential buyers will have purchased it when it starts.
Personally, I do not see the value in buying ANYTHING on release day any more. Frequently if you wait as little as a month, you can get the same product for 25% off. If you wait six months, you can almost always get 2 for 1.
They were really rude and the supervisors didn't give a damn and I got really pissed off. In another few years I probably won't even remember why I'm mad (it was a minor matter of a less than 30 bucks and really more about getting an apology that they boned me and I told them at the time it would probably cost them future purchases and pointed out the couple thousand bucks of electronics I had previously purchased from them).
I'm not mad any more. But now it's a habit.
I agree with your point from a point of extreme precision.
However the computer situation is more akin to having GM and Delorean, not GM and Ford. Given the apple situation (where microsoft actually gave them money to prop them up), it would be like calling the above auto market an oligopoly when GM was giving Delorean money so it would not declare bankruptcy.
Microsoft had a unique ability that GM lacked. They can change the 'road' to be a foot narrower without warning- making other peoples 'cars' non-functional until they adapt them to the new roads.
I havn't bought a Sony product since 2001 when they were grossly rude to me during a customer service related call.
So yes, it's very easy to boycott sony.
Hmm. I guess except movies- I may have seen a columbia picture at the theatres. I know for some I have bought a ticket to movie "B" and then seen movie "A" instead to avoid them getting my cash.
Okay I'll bite.
First let me say that Jar Jar was one of the few GOOD things about the first movie.
Star Wars IV was all about character conflict. The characters were constantly arguing with each other. This led to a lot of humorous situations. It was also targeted at 13+ year old people. It had no scenes that felt like they were added to the movie to sell merchandise. Finally, the actors were really good and you believed the emotions they were feeling.
Star Wars I had no character conflict. Even during the big battle, Darth Maul said nothing. They just fought, stared at each other, sat passively and meditated, and then fought some more. The only character conflict in the movie was when Jar Jar actually got a rise out of Gui Qon (sp) and he irritably told Jar Jar to stop spearing the fruit with his tongue. It was targeted at 6 year olds. It had many scenes that said, "Come this christmas to buy these toys!" The actors were pretty much sucked which was odd because most were good in other pictures. Palpatine owned every scene he was in.
Other than that... Here are the number of times I have seen the movies...
SW Rating Seen
I (3) - 1 (will never see it again or purchase it)
II (7) - 1 (might see it again every 10 years or so)
III (6) - 1 (might see it again every 15 years or so)
IV (10) - 17
V (10) - 13-14
VI (10*/4) - 2(7*) * the "good" first half- I turn it off now when it gets to kiddyland.
The basic problem is that Lucas
1) sold out.
2) retargeted the films at 6 year olds & the toy market.
3) is poor at directing actors.
4) Got everything he ever wished for and as a result lost all self control.
And I do agree that there was no mystery since we knew anakin would fall.
Finally, I personally found it a bit cheesy that out of all the storm troopers, not one formed a bond of loyalty with the people they were fighting beside and revealed the plan. I'll assume that it was a post hypnotic suggestion for now. But despite being clones they -are- human. It seems like a few hard fought battles beside particular jedi would cause them to become friends.
All right now, being popular (making bucks) isn't the same thing as being good. It just means it is liked by the age group that dominates movie going. SawII probably had a slight edge due to it being Halloween too.
I don't think they can shut down dvd quality work. I think they might be able to shut down broadcast quality work unless they are opposed. Even that is unlikely since it is only about 5k to get fairly decent cameras.
But I bet they have reasonable odds of locking out the low end of the market.
Dude...
.net pissed off a lot of microsoft vb developers/supporters when they dumped support for vb6 without an upgrade path.
I didn't say a word about linux.
Microsoft was bad almost before linus was born. Back in the beginning we all said, "Dos isn't ready until Lotus 1.2.3 won't run." Windows specifically checked for DRDos and failed with a hard error if drdos was installed. If you disabled the check, windows ran fine. The entire purpose of the check was to spike a dos competitor. Even back then you knew that if you used microsoft that other products might break with each release of the operating system if they were major competitors of microsoft.
and p.s.
Sorry to bust your balloon but microsoft is fundamentally dedicated to a world where everyone pays a monthly subscription for microsoft products and there are no competitors and any potential competitors are locked out before they can even get started.
Fooled me once, shame on me- fooled me at least 15 to 20 times- well I guess I should assume you are trying to fool me on any future attempts. (convicted of stealing competitors products, well known tendency of breaking competitors products by tweaking the operating system, well known tendency to slow competitors products by tweaking the operating system or using illegal API's and still certifying product, bundling, giving away products for free until the competition is dead then never innovating, "embracing and extending" java, j++, the halloween memoes, "collaborating" on products with a competitor and then bringing out their own version using knowledge they picked up during the collaboration, etc. etc. etc.).
They are not just another large capitalist company. They are something unique and they want to lock that in forever. They bought or drove out of business every legitimate business that competed with them either legally or illegally (Stak/doublespace comes to mind- there are others).
Trust me, you don't know it but you really do want 4 to 5 solid OS's competing with many different products so that they keep each other honest.
It should not matter. I think we should be able to create anything we can afford the hardware for.
But I think if Riaa can get something passed, it will be there. They will argue something along the lines of, "Ordinary people don't need to be able to create video's with enough detail to display on a 40x60 foot screen. Only pirates need to do that. Here is $100,000 for your next campaign!"
I don't know about Saw II, but Zorro was an immensely entertaining piece of froth.
Very funny. Good acting from all involved.
Of course I've only seen about 3 movies this year. Most of the crap they put out isn't even appealing enough to get me into the theaters.
I can't see them locking down any video- but I can see them locking down anything better than DVD quality.
Both sides don't use terrorists.
Terrorists intentionally attack civilians for the purpose of creating fear.
Freedom fighters intentionally attack soldiers (including police officers) and members of the opposing political organization.
For example, I would say that Palestians who kill Isreali soldiers and politicians are freedom fighters while those who kill Isreali 13 year olds are terrorists.
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Personally, I feel in any slow, ongoing conflict we should give both sides weapons and have them fight openly til one side concedes the point, whatever it is.
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As far as video...
Pirates in other countries won't be affected by this crap so they will continue to do as they please. As a result, P2P won't be affected either. Most "rich" people in the U.S. won't be affected either (since for 3x the bucks you can buy a dvd player that ignore regions and has macrovision easily disabled).
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Official pirates who sell the material seem to not be an issue in the US. Here it is free when pirated. In china it is 2.45 pirated.
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Last point- it is about the money. RIAA wants to continue to make 1st world profits in the 1st world while being able to sell the same exact product in the 2nd and 3rd worlds for reduced prices. A false monopoly- completely against the capitalist model. In real capitalism, the price of movies and songs would be roughly the same everywhere. So if RIAA sells something for 3.95, they would find it impossible to sell it for 19.95 elsewhere because folks would buy the cheaper copy and resell it at 4.95 undercutting the 19.95 price.
Their model is broken.
1) Increasing glut of songs/movies.
2) Increasing glut of cheap labor.
3) Decreasing wages in the 1st world as we average out with the 2nd/3rd worlds.
On that last point- at some time indian workers and american workers (and albanian workers, chinese workers, etc.) are all going to make basically the same wages. Probably within the next 20 years. It's going to be bloody painful getting to that point.
If you turn off java, the startup is almost instantaneous on a pentium 3.0 off a 7200rpm drive.
And I read here today that the next java (1.6) is supposed to have faster startup.
I agree with you. Memory is pretty cheap these days- $160 for 2gig. $320 for 4gig.
since i'm paying a monthly fee for them.
Are the bandwidth providers going to start trying to charge different fees depending on what TYPE of data I want to send and receive through the pipe that I AM PAYING FOR?
Data is data.
What he is saying is...
Not
A better example would be if Linus Torvalds said "I ran a test that demonstrates Linux booting 25% faster than Windows on the same hardware," and Bill Gates responded with "My tests show that Windows boots 15% faster than Linux on the same hardware."
But
A better example would be if Linus Torvalds said "I ran a test and it demonstrates Windows booting 25% faster than Linux on the same hardware," and Bill Gates responded with "I hate to say it but my tests show that Linux boots 15% faster than Windows on the same hardware."
Similarly
If George Ou said, "I tested Openoffice and it blew Word away." Folks would believe him because he supports windows and disses opensource and such a statement is probably honest and after he checked everything. For George to say Windows stuff is good is almost a non-statement because he has no credibility any more. He spent it all by being relentlessly pro-windows and anti-linux / open source over the course of several years.
On the general subject, as someone else said:
OO really is slower and uses more memory because it does things in software that Word and Excel can ask the operating system for. That's a minus for OO.
Word and Excel really are proprietary and require you to pay more money every year or two for an upgrade. That's a minus for them.
Word and Excel really do lock you into windows while OO runs on most OS. Windows intends to go to a subscription model where you have to pay money every month to get current patches. Another minus for them.
I think George Ou would need to use both applications for the first time on a system which they had not been used before. Or George would need to use Openoffice and Word daily for a month. Since he uses microsoft products, his will already be set up to cache. Since he does not use Openoffice, it will not be cached.
.2 and 2 seconds on your 8ghz (or dual core 4ghz) machine.
If neither were used or both were used for a reasonable period before the test, then they might perform differently.
Knowing Microsoft, there is also the distinct possibility that it pre-caches it's own applications even if they are not used. And finally, there may be parts of their functionality (like text window management) built into the OS which cannot be used by system agnostic software. They would be -risky- to use, since Microsoft has changed such things in the past without warning breaking competing apps that used microsoft operating system features while not breaking their own applications.
All that being said, I speculate that OO programmers are more "theory" type and program pretty code that performs poorly while Microsoft programmers are more pragamatic programmers who are comfortable writing down and dirty and fast/efficient code in the 1% of the program where it's needed. Likewise, I bet Microsoft has better profilers. And finally, Microsoft has had a longer period to clean out grossly inefficient things.
OO will continue getting better. OO will continue to be free. OO will not lock you into an operating system. You will never have to "rent" OO. You will never be ratted out by OO to microsoft (Word hasn't done this but XP sends a lot of messages home and even reboots my system without asking me to apply patches). Finally, hardware and ram continue to get more powerful. In a couple years, the difference will be between 100 and 200 megabytes of your 8 gigabytes of memory and
I've been out of college for 14 years now.
I almost never use a pen or pencile any more.
There is a permanent dent on my right middle finger.
And I have carpal tunnel. The doc says- "If you want it to stop- stop typing."
Lately I'm typing up "Use Cases" 6 hours a day.
First, mining, smelting, transporting these metals is going to cause pollution.
But any hydrogen based car system is going to dump a lot of water into the environment if everyone goes to hydrogen. I wonder with 200 million cars if the water/water vapor is going to act as a pollutant, encourage mold growth, etc.
I mostly agree with you but the new Napster is charging and it is finding customers.
There are a lot of people who prefer to pay a small amount for piece of mind that they won't be busted and impoverished (even if the odds are worse than many lotteries).
For the 80 gazillionthe time...
m cdonalds.htm
There had been many previous complaints that mcdonalds had settled so they knew it was an issue.
The burns were very bad burns- not just "oh I spilled hot coffee" burns.
The coffee was an insane temperature (like 175 degrees).
The key fact is that it was a known problem mcdonalds had not fixed. It's like having a 3' fence around your pool. You may not be liable the first time some kid drowns but after that you know it is a problem and you are liable the second time one drowns if you ignored the problem.
Facts here
http://www.centerjd.org/free/mythbusters-free/MB_
Probably having a problem breaking the habit of working on this topic.
I work in an office full of females. Many are managers. Even on the Indian teams, they have female managers and leads. The main issue I see in the DP field is age discrimination. I'm saving for retirement and working on my career path on the presumption that at 55, I will be unable to find work in the field as a programmer.
I guess it depends on where you work. The lack of a degree may be preventing you from getting work in larger corporations- many larger corporations pretty much require a degree and 4+ years experience to get an interview unless they are hiring you straight out of college.
Last study I read showed that people who changed jobs every 2 years made 25% more after 10 years.
My pay grew about 8% while staying at one company getting my degree and went up over 15% a year for several years when I finally started changing companies.
Currently hunkered down tho- I'm at the top until I get a shot a manager position. At this level there are 5 qualified people for every promotion so moving up is much slower.
That pay sounds really low considering how expensive San Diego is. Not kidding- it sounds really seriously low compared to the midwest.
1) Go to college.
2) Take your "core" first- they apply to all degrees.
3) Unless you are brilliant or extremely driven, just get a business degree.
4) Make sure you get at least a 3.0 GPA (Higher is better).
5) Join a fraternity (networking/connections).
6) Go to parties (have fun while you are young and healthy).
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CS sucks- all the jobs are going overseas. There is no future in it unless you are brilliant.
Basic facts: If you know how to program- you can do it from anywhere. If you know the particular business rules you are dealing with, you have value. So learn a lot about businesses that are too small to offshore work and you may have a shot. Any large business has unlimited "decent/code monkey" programmers at $5k to $10k per year- until their wages come up or ours go down- you are not going to find work here.
The pay in business is much better than video gaming but it is dropping or staying the same in the face of 3-4% inflation.
---
Never trust promises from managers. They have no control and they are probably lying if they do. Always remember you are a COST to the company and the second you stop having value you will simply be let go. Save save save.
Well... since you what you harvest most of the time is mature seeds, I think you have a lot more seeds at harvest time than you do at sowing time. You hold some seeds back from the harvest to plant at next planting season.
Feel free to say "DOH!" at your leisure.
Some programmers got rich shaving pennies from otherwise correct code.
Without access to the source, there is no way to prove that quickly turning the machine on and off 3 times won't cause it to over or underreport the next test.