I'd imagine some people in california who've lived in the same house a long time could sell it, move to a rural area, and retire on the proceeds--that is if property taxes haven't bankrupted them first.
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Posting that story is probably the only way for that guy to make light of a really terrible situation. I used to live next to someone with a loud stereo and a rottweiler...it took real self control to not shoot the damn dog and burn down the bastard's house!
My bet is that the 'redneck neighbor' is some guy that came across money and decided to live upscale but with absolutely none of the courtesy or neighborhood covenants mindset. Either that, or he is a really bad artist using his house and yard as the media.
I'd rather see companies like IBM have the proper amount of employees than see them subsidize thousands of idle jobs. At least that's better than governments that practically _never_ fire anyone. These people on strike should go for a good public job or get on tenure track at a university.
Well, no bank/credit union exists in a vacuum. My credit union uses various underwriters for selling insurance, for example. Also, I think their stock brokerage is outsourced. The important stuff (my checking/savings) are _not_ outsourced, however.
A while back banks like Wachovia tried to tighten down on their customers charging fees for seeing tellers, fees for ATM transactions, fees for deposits, fees for various forms, fees for breathing, etc. That didn't last long, so customers must have voted with their wallets. I know I rejoiced at being able to join credit unions at the time, because at least they don't treat their customers like an illness.
(off topic: what do blind slashdotters think of these new "confirm you're not a script" thingies?)
If you are, then get your B.A. and get out. The last thing you need is another semester (another 12%!) on your school loan payments. Your degree gets you your first job. Your first job gets you your second job. And so forth. So, if you want your first job to be CS-related, that's one thing, but otherwise save your money for better things.
Just how much knowledge can a person glean from a semester of CS courses? Enough to be able to answer your customers' questions without looking silly? Usually with highly technical products, the sales people can do pricing and paperwork, but any serious questions quickly get routed to engineers, at least in my experience.
This is the reason I don't take anti-depressants, even though getting them would be easy for me. "Who do I want to be today?" is a question that simply disturbs me. Stressed out? Take a pill. What a way to take the cheap and easy way out of life.
It'd be better for society if we tried harder to find careers that suited us better. I'm going through a career change right now...we'll see how that goes, but sometimes the risks are part of the fun. That's why we need to be places where the stress is actually something we enjoy rather than something that sends us into an institution. People who are depressed right now need to rethink if they are in the right place at all and see if some adjustments are in order.
I'd say the first one for most people. I switched into Comp. Sci in college and loved it. I even enjoyed my internships during the summers. Then, I had to get a real job after school. Where I lived, basically the only jobs were government contracting, and there were reasons I needed to live there (family, etc.). I got a decent job with a major contractor, enjoyed learning the ropes for the first year or so, but all that gradually wore away the second year and was all gone after the third. The politics of how contracts are doled out and how technologies were chosen eroded all my enthusiasm for working in IT. The fact that incompetent people consistently got the upper hand through burying their heads up the asses of other people and that designs were shoved down our throats from above (people I never even met) just was too much. The worst thing of all was when some government rep would visit and see all the demos and give the whole broken mess a thumbs up!
Through all this I tried looking for other work, but this was post-bubble and sending resumes to other cities was as effective as just throwing them in my own trash can. Head hunters were useless. The only jobs in my own city were obviously available for a reason (shitty company, shitty job, etc.). It was completely demoralizing.
Right now, I'm working on starting my own small business that has absolutely nothing do to with IT. It's my exit strategy from a dead-end career path.
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What about some sort of RAID 5 in concentric rings from the inside to the outside of the disc? A scratch would have to span multiple regions to affect data integrity (not foolproof, just better).
Yes, people who say OpenBSD is hard because of the non-GUI installer just end up making themselves look lame. OpenBSD really is not that hard to install, and I actually prefer it to Red Hat's do-as-we-want-you-to-do installer.
Worst, they think people will give up biometric data for a shitty $20! This is just a DVD, folks!
MPAA, you can eat my shit, too. I wasted good money on H2G2 a couple weeks ago. You can claim how many millions that shitty movie made, but it's all people like me who like the book and the other TV/radio versions and got suckered into seeing this 90 minutes of pain. Every time I go to a theatre, I get only more bitter about how bad the whole movie/theatre experience is. The days were going out to the movies was fun are over. Before H2G2 was nearly 30 minutes of commercials, including a couple token previews. How much marketing do I need shoved down my throat?!? After that insult came the craptastic aimless adventure of Arthur, Zaphod, and Trillian. Blech!
This isn't the first time. The last several times I've been to a movie theatre (spread over years, mind you), nearly every time is a disappointment. It seems maybe every tenth movie you make is any good whatsoever, but there is no way to tell beforehand! Out of the movies I thought would be good, only two or three in the past half-decade were even passable.
Every year that passes, you get less and less of my money. The only movies I will see from here on out are the rare must-see movies, which lately have been at most one or two a year, sometimes zero. What kind of business model is that? You insult your customers in the theatres, and, then, you treat them like criminals at the stores! I bet you will deny this to your last dying breath...well, good riddance.
I'd hope Nintendo understands that older NES/SNES games go for about $5 or less at flea markets and on the bargain shelf at stores. There'd be no market to support $20, IMO.
Of course, it even has a purple tinge in the upper right corner that appeared a while back. The only thing I would like is an SVideo input...but we can't have everything, can we?
"You say the 9800 you saw last weekend cost as much as when you bought it a year ago? Don't you think that's a good indicator of the quality of the card. You hit the sweet spot in the market."
I would tell customers that the serial number is an integral part of the software. Losing that is like losing the CD that it came on.
This is just a surefire way to piss off your paying customer base and send them looking at your competitors. Serial numbers are as cheap as the CD media--just give the customer a new one and be happy they gave you any money at all.
Nintendo has said about all they need to. Being able to download NES, SNES, and N64 games is _huge_. For a few bucks, I'd gladly download the Final Fantasy games I missed, or get the Super Mario or Zelda games from the N64.
If XBox 360 and PS3 are both $300 or more, if Nintendo can come in under their prices and offer the download service, the Revolution could be the perfect "family" gaming system (family playtime would be Mario instead of killing bitches in GTA).
Standard lifespan of a TV is normally 8 years so I think it is high time for you to upgrade.
Are you a TV salesperson? When my 20 y.o. breaks (perhaps when it is 21-23 y.o.), I'll switch over to the smaller 8 y.o. TV in the spare room (which will be 9-11 y.o. at that time).
Perhaps I'll be ready to buy a new TV sometime after 2010.
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I'd imagine some people in california who've lived in the same house a long time could sell it, move to a rural area, and retire on the proceeds--that is if property taxes haven't bankrupted them first.
Posting that story is probably the only way for that guy to make light of a really terrible situation. I used to live next to someone with a loud stereo and a rottweiler...it took real self control to not shoot the damn dog and burn down the bastard's house!
My bet is that the 'redneck neighbor' is some guy that came across money and decided to live upscale but with absolutely none of the courtesy or neighborhood covenants mindset. Either that, or he is a really bad artist using his house and yard as the media.
I'd rather see companies like IBM have the proper amount of employees than see them subsidize thousands of idle jobs. At least that's better than governments that practically _never_ fire anyone. These people on strike should go for a good public job or get on tenure track at a university.
Well, no bank/credit union exists in a vacuum. My credit union uses various underwriters for selling insurance, for example. Also, I think their stock brokerage is outsourced. The important stuff (my checking/savings) are _not_ outsourced, however.
A while back banks like Wachovia tried to tighten down on their customers charging fees for seeing tellers, fees for ATM transactions, fees for deposits, fees for various forms, fees for breathing, etc. That didn't last long, so customers must have voted with their wallets. I know I rejoiced at being able to join credit unions at the time, because at least they don't treat their customers like an illness.
(off topic: what do blind slashdotters think of these new "confirm you're not a script" thingies?)
I'm 98 to 99.4 percent monkey, you insensitive clod!
Natalie Portman + Carrie Fisher = Not all of Han Solo got thawed...
If you are, then get your B.A. and get out. The last thing you need is another semester (another 12%!) on your school loan payments. Your degree gets you your first job. Your first job gets you your second job. And so forth. So, if you want your first job to be CS-related, that's one thing, but otherwise save your money for better things.
Just how much knowledge can a person glean from a semester of CS courses? Enough to be able to answer your customers' questions without looking silly? Usually with highly technical products, the sales people can do pricing and paperwork, but any serious questions quickly get routed to engineers, at least in my experience.
This is the reason I don't take anti-depressants, even though getting them would be easy for me. "Who do I want to be today?" is a question that simply disturbs me. Stressed out? Take a pill. What a way to take the cheap and easy way out of life.
It'd be better for society if we tried harder to find careers that suited us better. I'm going through a career change right now...we'll see how that goes, but sometimes the risks are part of the fun. That's why we need to be places where the stress is actually something we enjoy rather than something that sends us into an institution.
People who are depressed right now need to rethink if they are in the right place at all and see if some adjustments are in order.
I'd say the first one for most people. I switched into Comp. Sci in college and loved it. I even enjoyed my internships during the summers. Then, I had to get a real job after school. Where I lived, basically the only jobs were government contracting, and there were reasons I needed to live there (family, etc.). I got a decent job with a major contractor, enjoyed learning the ropes for the first year or so, but all that gradually wore away the second year and was all gone after the third. The politics of how contracts are doled out and how technologies were chosen eroded all my enthusiasm for working in IT. The fact that incompetent people consistently got the upper hand through burying their heads up the asses of other people and that designs were shoved down our throats from above (people I never even met) just was too much. The worst thing of all was when some government rep would visit and see all the demos and give the whole broken mess a thumbs up!
Through all this I tried looking for other work, but this was post-bubble and sending resumes to other cities was as effective as just throwing them in my own trash can. Head hunters were useless. The only jobs in my own city were obviously available for a reason (shitty company, shitty job, etc.). It was completely demoralizing.
Right now, I'm working on starting my own small business that has absolutely nothing do to with IT. It's my exit strategy from a dead-end career path.
What about some sort of RAID 5 in concentric rings from the inside to the outside of the disc? A scratch would have to span multiple regions to affect data integrity (not foolproof, just better).
Yes, people who say OpenBSD is hard because of the non-GUI installer just end up making themselves look lame. OpenBSD really is not that hard to install, and I actually prefer it to Red Hat's do-as-we-want-you-to-do installer.
Add that businesses have to find replacement parts on these things. And the time of the staff to maintain them makes the hardware look free.
The best solution is to get true thin clients that don't break down or become obselete after a few years.
At least you didn't ask her for her left nut!
Worst, they think people will give up biometric data for a shitty $20! This is just a DVD, folks!
MPAA, you can eat my shit, too. I wasted good money on H2G2 a couple weeks ago. You can claim how many millions that shitty movie made, but it's all people like me who like the book and the other TV/radio versions and got suckered into seeing this 90 minutes of pain. Every time I go to a theatre, I get only more bitter about how bad the whole movie/theatre experience is. The days were going out to the movies was fun are over. Before H2G2 was nearly 30 minutes of commercials, including a couple token previews. How much marketing do I need shoved down my throat?!? After that insult came the craptastic aimless adventure of Arthur, Zaphod, and Trillian. Blech!
This isn't the first time. The last several times I've been to a movie theatre (spread over years, mind you), nearly every time is a disappointment. It seems maybe every tenth movie you make is any good whatsoever, but there is no way to tell beforehand! Out of the movies I thought would be good, only two or three in the past half-decade were even passable.
Every year that passes, you get less and less of my money. The only movies I will see from here on out are the rare must-see movies, which lately have been at most one or two a year, sometimes zero. What kind of business model is that? You insult your customers in the theatres, and, then, you treat them like criminals at the stores! I bet you will deny this to your last dying breath...well, good riddance.
I'd hope Nintendo understands that older NES/SNES games go for about $5 or less at flea markets and on the bargain shelf at stores. There'd be no market to support $20, IMO.
Well, I meant at least the ones released in the U.S. I never owned an SNES, for example, so there's one or two there I could get.
Of course it's accurate. They used Diebold machines to count the census!
Is it even coloured?
Of course, it even has a purple tinge in the upper right corner that appeared a while back. The only thing I would like is an SVideo input...but we can't have everything, can we?
"You say the 9800 you saw last weekend cost as much as when you bought it a year ago? Don't you think that's a good indicator of the quality of the card. You hit the sweet spot in the market."
Actually, my first thought was "price fixing".
Why don't you ask your dad?
I would tell customers that the serial number is an integral part of the software. Losing that is like losing the CD that it came on.
This is just a surefire way to piss off your paying customer base and send them looking at your competitors. Serial numbers are as cheap as the CD media--just give the customer a new one and be happy they gave you any money at all.
Nintendo has said about all they need to. Being able to download NES, SNES, and N64 games is _huge_. For a few bucks, I'd gladly download the Final Fantasy games I missed, or get the Super Mario or Zelda games from the N64.
If XBox 360 and PS3 are both $300 or more, if Nintendo can come in under their prices and offer the download service, the Revolution could be the perfect "family" gaming system (family playtime would be Mario instead of killing bitches in GTA).
Standard lifespan of a TV is normally 8 years so I think it is high time for you to upgrade.
Are you a TV salesperson? When my 20 y.o. breaks (perhaps when it is 21-23 y.o.), I'll switch over to the smaller 8 y.o. TV in the spare room (which will be 9-11 y.o. at that time).
Perhaps I'll be ready to buy a new TV sometime after 2010.