I didn't even have a CS degree, but a M.S. degree in Physics/Astronomy; in fact, I never took any CS classes, but did quite a bit of programming related to my college classes after doing some Fortran programming in a job during high school.
I started in a small company doing some CAD work, and demonstrated my programming skills through automating some of my tasks and helping automate some large tasks. This led me to programming the company's main applications. This is how I started.
My suggestion is to be hired by a small company where multiple skills are much appreciated. It's always risky to work for small companies, but it is a good way to move through multiple disciplines getting work experience.
The email provider I use is netaddress.com, which provides my email....@usa.net (kind of nice and short and official looking). I've been with them longer than I can remember, at least more than 10 years, probably more than 12 years. They started out free, and have been commercial for most of that time. They do meet all your requirements.
As a side note, I've been meaning to switch to a domain I acquired through Yahoo, especially since they map my domain as email to my Yahoo email account, but haven't really gotten around to it. I been with my usa.net email for so long, its hard to give up. Anyway, this latter option is cheaper than a commercial email provider.
How many of you computer users like having something installed on your computer without your prior consent? Why is this situation any different? I would not only demand it be removed, but ask for a full refund. Then I would tell anyone who asked, to not use him for services. After all, if someone is willing to violate my trust that far, where is the boundary of what gets installed without my consent. If he wishes to promote, than he could supply a cd at his own expense to the customer.
Perhaps the whole model that Linux uses for drivers is flawed. Why should it 'require' having to 'link' into the core just to provide a driver?
A 'message' model would be preferable. Then this licensing issue would be avoided.
and, yes, it is possible to have even a real-time OS based on a message-passing scheme. It is just a matter of priorities and optimization. After all, every piece of hardware is really passing messages around anyway (even if its only groups of bytes), no reason the software cannot model that.
Btw, the only way Linux will ever have a chance to become a factor in the home use and business market of client computers is to be as easy to install drivers and applications and updates as it is to do so in Windows; and also to have a plethora of easy to use applications. I've still yet to see something easier to do in Linux vs. doing it in Windows, even as a developer.
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Yes, and what useful office/business applications are written in SWING? I've still yet see a java app launch at anywhere near the speed an equivalent Windows app does (even the second time it gets launched and may have been cached). Eclipse is one of the slowest IDE's out there. I would venture it is slower than Borland's (though, that may be debatable:) ).
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Has anyone tried running the VS.NET express on one of the Windows emulators for Linux? results?
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I didn't even have a CS degree, but a M.S. degree in Physics/Astronomy; in fact, I never took any CS classes, but did quite a bit of programming related to my college classes after doing some Fortran programming in a job during high school. I started in a small company doing some CAD work, and demonstrated my programming skills through automating some of my tasks and helping automate some large tasks. This led me to programming the company's main applications. This is how I started. My suggestion is to be hired by a small company where multiple skills are much appreciated. It's always risky to work for small companies, but it is a good way to move through multiple disciplines getting work experience.
The email provider I use is netaddress.com, which provides my email ....@usa.net (kind of nice and short and official looking). I've been with them longer than I can remember, at least more than 10 years, probably more than 12 years. They started out free, and have been commercial for most of that time. They do meet all your requirements.
As a side note, I've been meaning to switch to a domain I acquired through Yahoo, especially since they map my domain as email to my Yahoo email account, but haven't really gotten around to it. I been with my usa.net email for so long, its hard to give up. Anyway, this latter option is cheaper than a commercial email provider.
Very good mobile products for the blind, though not cheap: http://www.knfbreader.com/
How many of you computer users like having something installed on your computer without your prior consent? Why is this situation any different? I would not only demand it be removed, but ask for a full refund. Then I would tell anyone who asked, to not use him for services. After all, if someone is willing to violate my trust that far, where is the boundary of what gets installed without my consent. If he wishes to promote, than he could supply a cd at his own expense to the customer.
Perhaps the whole model that Linux uses for drivers is flawed. Why should it 'require' having to 'link' into the core just to provide a driver?
A 'message' model would be preferable. Then this licensing issue would be avoided.
and, yes, it is possible to have even a real-time OS based on a message-passing scheme. It is just a matter of priorities and optimization. After all, every piece of hardware is really passing messages around anyway (even if its only groups of bytes), no reason the software cannot model that.
Btw, the only way Linux will ever have a chance to become a factor in the home use and business market of client computers is to be as easy to install drivers and applications and updates as it is to do so in Windows; and also to have a plethora of easy to use applications. I've still yet to see something easier to do in Linux vs. doing it in Windows, even as a developer.
Yes, and what useful office/business applications are written in SWING? I've still yet see a java app launch at anywhere near the speed an equivalent Windows app does (even the second time it gets launched and may have been cached). Eclipse is one of the slowest IDE's out there. I would venture it is slower than Borland's (though, that may be debatable :) ).
Has anyone tried running the VS.NET express on one of the Windows emulators for Linux? results?