No. I have an iPhone on T-Mobile. My dataplan is an an extra $20 on top of my normal rate. I don't use many minutes, so have a cheap plan to start with, so my total monthly is around $50.
I'm kind of seeing the worst case scenario being I end up on the missing persons list, and the Thai government claims no knowledge of where I went, but think I was last seen with some drug smugglers and hookers.
Who, besides idiots, actually believed that crabs couldn't feel pain? Or the idiots who think that fish can't feel a damn hook ripping through their face.
Yes, morons, these animals feel it. The question is, do you really care?
You make the erroneous assumption I have any say in what my company chooses to pay people. I don't hire the co-ops or decide on their salary. Regardless, paying them more wouldn't magically give them the knowledge they need.
Many people may be desperate for work anywhere, but not everyone is. And I agree with the GP. I don't just blindly take the first job that offers. A job interview is two-way--you should be interviewing them as well. Sure, if you're desperate you'll take anything. But if you're not, it's perfectly valid to say "I don't want to work there." No need for the angst over it.
hah. Anyone on my team who feels the need to remind me of where they went to school, immediately makes the shit list. I'll dump on them all the crap work nobody else wants. If they do it all without complaint, they redeem themselves. Few do.
My company is big on using co-ops, as we can rape them in terms of pay. So, I see a slew of 20-24 yr old IT majors come through the revolving doors here. Granted, they are students, not IT professionals, so I don't expect them to be experts in their field yet, but I expect them to know basics, and at least be able to find an answer if they don't know it. Compared to the knowledge and experience of the contractors I hire (and I specifically go for people with experience, which tends to end up being people in their 30's) the supposed better "mental acuity" of these kids means exactly jack shit. It'll take 3 co-ops to output the same amount of work that one of the good contractors can do, and it'll take longer with more mistakes, more input from me. It's annoying, as I don't want to be teacher. I'm a project lead. Give me people who can handle the tasks I assign them without hand-holding and explanations of basic technology.
Any IT hiring manager using this as a reason for hiring younger, as opposed to experienced, is a complete moron.
So no, 35 is not old at all, and any company worth working for would not disqualify someone based on that.
Personally, *I* think the trend to hire younger is based solely on pay scale. Older, experienced employees expect better pay. We all know the damn bean-counters are the ones who really run the show.
Sure, that's censorship as well, but censorship can be perfectly acceptable depending on the situation.
On a privately owned forum? Censor all you want, you own it. Let's not mince words though. If you block specific language or content, you are censoring that content. That does not imply a negative connotation though. Censorship is a necessity in some cases.
Some channels do. Unfortunately my favorite channel (comedy 150) is one of them. And they're not normal commercials either; they're all for erectile dysfunction, male enhancement, gotomeeting.com, and colon cleansing. As if everyone who likes to laugh has a small, soft penis, a bloated colon, and needs to meet with people in Hong Kong NOW!
Dead Space is awesome. And creepy as shit, if not outright scary at times. They did an excellent job at it. Although I'm sure it can be argued that it is more a scary FPS than a true survival horror. Still an excellent, scary game.
Probably not. But then if someone simply says "little old lady" most of us assume a little old caucasion lady. Adding that the lady was Asian adds a bit more detail to the story, but doesn't defame the person's race necessarily. OP in no way indicated that her race had anything to do with the conditions of the store.
Exactly how I see it. I paid my ISP their asking price for my bandwidth. Google paid their ISP for their bandwidth. Why the hell would google have to pay my ISP a second time for my bandwidth? I see it as nothing more than greed.
As a bench technician whose had his hands on and in just about every model of PowerMac and PowerBook Apple ever made: This is nothing new. They made some models almost bullet proof. And some were just bad ideas. Anyone remember the powerbook 5300's? They were still replacing hinges on those things for free years after they stopped making them. How about the Duo 2300? The logic board and power management boards made contact through pressure from the top and bottom cases--too much or too little torque on the wrong case screws and the machine wouldn't power on. That was a bitch. Or my favorite Apple lemon of all time: the Color Laserwriter 12/600. It was a gigantic 100lb beast, overly-complicated design, took 4 toner cartridges, and never worked right. I pray to never see one again.
I will say this: when they determine a problem is a design flaw, they are great about fixing/replacing affected parts. Many manufacturers can't say that.
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Why is this different from Apple not licensing use of it's OS on non-Apple computers?
Wasn't Irix only licensed to run on SGI machines?
HP-UX? Others?
That pisses me off to no end too.
Also why I keep an old pirated copy of WinDVD around, just to install it for the codec.
No. I have an iPhone on T-Mobile. My dataplan is an an extra $20 on top of my normal rate. I don't use many minutes, so have a cheap plan to start with, so my total monthly is around $50.
I keep all of my music on an external RAID array. They can examine the drive in my computer all they want. :)
Yeap. But then that's why we hack it, and then make it do what we wanted in the first place.
Or revving the engine faster to maintain the same vehicle speed, and with a lower top speed.
Still not a valid analogy. No one is taking that copied PDF down to the store to trade it for real goods.
I can copy all the money I want and it doesn't hurt a soul... so long as it never leaves my home to be used in public.
I'm kind of seeing the worst case scenario being I end up on the missing persons list, and the Thai government claims no knowledge of where I went, but think I was last seen with some drug smugglers and hookers.
I don't want them, cheap or not. I get handed them because the company hires them, and passes them out.
The Earth shall be scorched and barren when they pry the beer mug from my dessicated fingers.
Who, besides idiots, actually believed that crabs couldn't feel pain?
Or the idiots who think that fish can't feel a damn hook ripping through their face.
Yes, morons, these animals feel it. The question is, do you really care?
You make the erroneous assumption I have any say in what my company chooses to pay people. I don't hire the co-ops or decide on their salary.
Regardless, paying them more wouldn't magically give them the knowledge they need.
Many people may be desperate for work anywhere, but not everyone is.
And I agree with the GP. I don't just blindly take the first job that offers. A job interview is two-way--you should be interviewing them as well. Sure, if you're desperate you'll take anything. But if you're not, it's perfectly valid to say "I don't want to work there."
No need for the angst over it.
hah. Anyone on my team who feels the need to remind me of where they went to school, immediately makes the shit list. I'll dump on them all the crap work nobody else wants.
If they do it all without complaint, they redeem themselves.
Few do.
My company is big on using co-ops, as we can rape them in terms of pay.
So, I see a slew of 20-24 yr old IT majors come through the revolving doors here. Granted, they are students, not IT professionals, so I don't expect them to be experts in their field yet, but I expect them to know basics, and at least be able to find an answer if they don't know it.
Compared to the knowledge and experience of the contractors I hire (and I specifically go for people with experience, which tends to end up being people in their 30's) the supposed better "mental acuity" of these kids means exactly jack shit. It'll take 3 co-ops to output the same amount of work that one of the good contractors can do, and it'll take longer with more mistakes, more input from me.
It's annoying, as I don't want to be teacher. I'm a project lead. Give me people who can handle the tasks I assign them without hand-holding and explanations of basic technology.
Any IT hiring manager using this as a reason for hiring younger, as opposed to experienced, is a complete moron.
So no, 35 is not old at all, and any company worth working for would not disqualify someone based on that.
Personally, *I* think the trend to hire younger is based solely on pay scale. Older, experienced employees expect better pay. We all know the damn bean-counters are the ones who really run the show.
Sure, that's censorship as well, but censorship can be perfectly acceptable depending on the situation.
On a privately owned forum? Censor all you want, you own it. Let's not mince words though. If you block specific language or content, you are censoring that content. That does not imply a negative connotation though. Censorship is a necessity in some cases.
.SendThatBitch() /*if only my bosses ever bothered to read my code comments! They wouldn't be able to keep a straight face while firing me*/
You beat me to it.
What's the greater expense, constantly replacing cable runs, or laying conduit one time.
They must be protected from abuse by ruining their lives! It's the only way!
Some channels do.
Unfortunately my favorite channel (comedy 150) is one of them. And they're not normal commercials either; they're all for erectile dysfunction, male enhancement, gotomeeting.com, and colon cleansing.
As if everyone who likes to laugh has a small, soft penis, a bloated colon, and needs to meet with people in Hong Kong NOW!
Dead Space is awesome. And creepy as shit, if not outright scary at times. They did an excellent job at it.
Although I'm sure it can be argued that it is more a scary FPS than a true survival horror.
Still an excellent, scary game.
The gravity of the moon also helps to stabilize our rotational wobble. Weather patterns would be more extreme and unpredictable without it.
Probably not. But then if someone simply says "little old lady" most of us assume a little old caucasion lady. Adding that the lady was Asian adds a bit more detail to the story, but doesn't defame the person's race necessarily. OP in no way indicated that her race had anything to do with the conditions of the store.
Exactly how I see it.
I paid my ISP their asking price for my bandwidth.
Google paid their ISP for their bandwidth.
Why the hell would google have to pay my ISP a second time for my bandwidth?
I see it as nothing more than greed.
As a bench technician whose had his hands on and in just about every model of PowerMac and PowerBook Apple ever made: This is nothing new.
They made some models almost bullet proof. And some were just bad ideas. Anyone remember the powerbook 5300's? They were still replacing hinges on those things for free years after they stopped making them.
How about the Duo 2300? The logic board and power management boards made contact through pressure from the top and bottom cases--too much or too little torque on the wrong case screws and the machine wouldn't power on. That was a bitch.
Or my favorite Apple lemon of all time: the Color Laserwriter 12/600. It was a gigantic 100lb beast, overly-complicated design, took 4 toner cartridges, and never worked right. I pray to never see one again.
I will say this: when they determine a problem is a design flaw, they are great about fixing/replacing affected parts. Many manufacturers can't say that.