I found a cost of living calculator at Salary.com the other day, because I'm looking at moving within a year or two. I currently make a base salary of ~$55,000 as a web developer in Dallas, Texas. Here are some numbers of approximately what I would need to make in various cities across the U.S to be at the same level:
New York, NY—$103,000
San Francisco, CA—$97,000
Boston, MA—$72,000
Seattle, WA—$68,000
Philadelphia, PA—$64,000
Chicago, IL—$58,000
Atlanta, GA—$57,000
Miami, FL—$56,000
Phoenix, AZ—$54,000
Wichita, KS—$52,000
Baltimore, MD—$51,000
Pierre, SD—$47,000
As expected, the cost of living is higher in the big cities, especially in California and New York State. Anyway, I hope this was helpful. The link is below if you want to try it yourself.
I don't think people want movies and portable game systems to be mixed together with such a small display. If the PSP is supposed to be in the market against portable DVD players, it needs to be just as big and better looking.
Also, the library for the PSP isn't looking all that hot right now. The original Playstation took off because it had a good library of games when it first came out. All the PSP has for it is remakes of games. So what? We need some original games or twists on the original, like Nintendo has done with the GBA and DS.
Not to mention price, but you can buy a portable DVD player AND the Nintendo DS for the same price as a PSP, and you don't have to buy all your DVD's all over again.
The only program I've ever had memory management issues with is AIM, and the reason is because they haven't actually released new versions, they just continually "upgrade", and their code base is probably quite contaminated by now.
Yeah, trillian makes you skip out on some of the features of AIM, but I think the stability and clean feel make it worth it...I got tired of reading everybody's KOOL PRFILE! anyway, so I started using Trillian. I don't have it installed at this computer, because it won't function through my work's proxy, but I use it at home.
Here's the quick breakdown for you:
MSN: ~10MB
AIM: ~ 5MB
Google: 3-5MB
Now, I know I'm ignorant and all that, but it seems like my system is using 20MB of ram for all three IM clients combined, where yours is using an extra ~126 MB for 3 more programs. Let's say I had those extra 3 programs running, and that they also use 20MB combined. That's 40MB total so far. You're using 3.5 times that, somehow. Either there are serious problems with Yahoo, Ineen and Skype, or you have a COMPUTER PROBLEM. There's no way on earth that you should be using almost 150 MB for 6 relatively small programs.
Why do you have 6 different IM programs in the first place? Why don't you try Trillian and eliminate 3 of those programs you're running?
I have this feeling that the page will be slashdotted soon, so I'll just go ahead and post the worthless article (not that anyone will read it anyway)
Vol 13: Why Google's Instant Message Service is Not about Jabber but about Skype
Date Published: August 23, 2005
By: Matt Veenstra
We recently have heard through the grapevine that the 3 billion dollar (US) offer from News Corp. was not enough money to convince the wonder twins over at Skype, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, to sell. This is not just about money for Niklas and Janus. There must be a passion for technology. Look at Kazaa. Illegal file sharing is a hard business to make money at. At this point, it seems that any way they go, they stand to make a boat load of money when Skype hits the market, but it will be in a way they want.
Now step in the super boys, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, of Google. Google does not have a great VoIP and Instant Message option. Jabber is fine, but it is no Skype. Technology-wise, Skype fits Google very well. A closed sourced open API environment that really just works. Look at Google maps. Look at AdSense and AdWords. They just work and on any platform, much like Skype.
Since $3 billion was not enough we know the offer needs present more money, and definitely more opportunity. More money equals Google's enormous market cap combined with their announcement to sell $4.2 billion worth of stock. We now we have the money. More opportunity is very simple. The first offer was made my News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is not the technology playland Skype wants to join. Google on the other hand is the company we all want to sell our great cool technologies to.
Skype has doesn't have an advertising revenue stream with Skype In and Out. This is attractive to Google as their revenue is very ad-based. In the future, there needs to be new revenue streams for Google's stock to justify its price.
At the same time, Google would just love to intermingle Skype and AdSense. It would be great. Every time you click on an ad you get a free minute of long distance. Sounds like a good idea for the home user who wants to talk to his family in India. I can only imagine the number of clicks happening. Ads change as you IM your friends and start talking about the latest movie star gossip. This is completely in line with Google's context sensitive advertising.
Google likes to create in-house, but they also know when to buy. The Picasso Image browser and Prya - Blogger.com - are some good examples of technology purchases they have made. It is not out of the question for Google to buy technology.
Google and Skype are technology companies who care about company culture, and dare I say it, world culture. Now we have the hottest technology company in Google buying the telecom killer of tomorrow, Skype.
Wonder twin powers activate... form of... the Fantastic Four.
Since we're jumping to conclusions about Google's corporate strategy today, I'll go ahead and give mine. It seems to me like Google wants to get into the field with their product and see where it goes.
Google Talk seems pretty barebones at the moment, but if we remember correctly, so was Gmail when it first came out. I've had it from day 3 or 4, and it wasn't really all that great at the time--the only thing to write home about was the amount of space you have.
Anyway, that seems to be Google's strategy with everything--launch a product in beta, then continuously improve it until everyone loves it. I could be wrong, but it seems like they would be competing with Skype and using their own in-house programs, rather than buying them out.
I don't have a reliable source for this, but supposedly there is around a 1 in 200 chance of something going fatally wrong on a shuttle flight. I believe NASA is working on somewhere around 120 space shuttle missions; Challenger and Columbia are the two where the crew has been lost. Those are the only two that I can think of--if they're the only two, then the chances are 1.6% right now of something going wrong.
I would be extremely happy if the astronauts made it down safely, but chances are working against them. Hopefully, the shuttle will be able to descend below the atmosphere before friction totally overheats the tears in the padding.
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While plugins like the one that Sun released are nice, the battle of course is with flexibility. That's why people build their own content management or forum systems, even though there are plenty of choices like Mambo and PHPBB. Sure, plugins are at a lower level, but the point stands--they can't always provide the flexibility necessary.
The challenge with Ajax, and complex DHTML is that a slight error produces big problems.
I think the challenge with any program is that errors produce problems. That's why they're called errors. Thankfully, most languages, including JavaScript/DHTML/AJAX/whatever we call it this week, have a try/catch error handler.
As we all know, this is a suit over a non-compete clause stating that M$ is a direct competitor to Google.
Following this, anyone who's ever worked for Microsoft ever basically can't get a job anywhere, considering that M$ thinks everyone is a competitor. Heck, I work for a healthcare company and I'll bet we "compete" with them.
As I'm sure has been said before, personal preferences in music aren't governed by other people. I'm willing to bet $50 that not a single person on slashdot likes your whole collection of music either.
Granted, I don't listen to Jessica Simpson or Kelly Clarkson, but considering they're selling quite a bit of music, I'd say somebody does.
Ok, I'm done trolling now.
I agree. Although whitelists are good, they tend to become annoying, much more so than receiving spam. Gmail manages to block about 200 emails of spam per day for me, and lets in maybe 4 or 5.
At least for a while, the SenderID system will end up blocking too many valid emails and will irritate users. I suppose after it's been around for a year or so and they have a decent system and database for the whitelist, the system will see the results that Microsoft wants.
Hotmail sucks anyway...Gmail is far superior in every sense.
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I found a cost of living calculator at Salary.com the other day, because I'm looking at moving within a year or two. I currently make a base salary of ~$55,000 as a web developer in Dallas, Texas. Here are some numbers of approximately what I would need to make in various cities across the U.S to be at the same level:
As expected, the cost of living is higher in the big cities, especially in California and New York State. Anyway, I hope this was helpful. The link is below if you want to try it yourself.
http://swz.salary.com/CostOfLivingWizard/layoutscr ipts/coll_start.asp
I don't think people want movies and portable game systems to be mixed together with such a small display. If the PSP is supposed to be in the market against portable DVD players, it needs to be just as big and better looking.
Also, the library for the PSP isn't looking all that hot right now. The original Playstation took off because it had a good library of games when it first came out. All the PSP has for it is remakes of games. So what? We need some original games or twists on the original, like Nintendo has done with the GBA and DS.
Not to mention price, but you can buy a portable DVD player AND the Nintendo DS for the same price as a PSP, and you don't have to buy all your DVD's all over again.
The only program I've ever had memory management issues with is AIM, and the reason is because they haven't actually released new versions, they just continually "upgrade", and their code base is probably quite contaminated by now.
Yeah, trillian makes you skip out on some of the features of AIM, but I think the stability and clean feel make it worth it...I got tired of reading everybody's KOOL PRFILE! anyway, so I started using Trillian. I don't have it installed at this computer, because it won't function through my work's proxy, but I use it at home.
No, this comment doesn't have any point.
I have MSN, AIM and now Google Talk running.
Here's the quick breakdown for you:
MSN: ~10MB
AIM: ~ 5MB
Google: 3-5MB
Now, I know I'm ignorant and all that, but it seems like my system is using 20MB of ram for all three IM clients combined, where yours is using an extra ~126 MB for 3 more programs. Let's say I had those extra 3 programs running, and that they also use 20MB combined. That's 40MB total so far. You're using 3.5 times that, somehow. Either there are serious problems with Yahoo, Ineen and Skype, or you have a COMPUTER PROBLEM. There's no way on earth that you should be using almost 150 MB for 6 relatively small programs.
Why do you have 6 different IM programs in the first place? Why don't you try Trillian and eliminate 3 of those programs you're running?
Ok, I'm done now. Go get your computer fixed.
I have this feeling that the page will be slashdotted soon, so I'll just go ahead and post the worthless article (not that anyone will read it anyway)
Vol 13: Why Google's Instant Message Service is Not about Jabber but about Skype Date Published: August 23, 2005 By: Matt Veenstra
We recently have heard through the grapevine that the 3 billion dollar (US) offer from News Corp. was not enough money to convince the wonder twins over at Skype, Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, to sell. This is not just about money for Niklas and Janus. There must be a passion for technology. Look at Kazaa. Illegal file sharing is a hard business to make money at. At this point, it seems that any way they go, they stand to make a boat load of money when Skype hits the market, but it will be in a way they want.
Now step in the super boys, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, of Google. Google does not have a great VoIP and Instant Message option. Jabber is fine, but it is no Skype. Technology-wise, Skype fits Google very well. A closed sourced open API environment that really just works. Look at Google maps. Look at AdSense and AdWords. They just work and on any platform, much like Skype.
Since $3 billion was not enough we know the offer needs present more money, and definitely more opportunity. More money equals Google's enormous market cap combined with their announcement to sell $4.2 billion worth of stock. We now we have the money. More opportunity is very simple. The first offer was made my News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is not the technology playland Skype wants to join. Google on the other hand is the company we all want to sell our great cool technologies to.
Skype has doesn't have an advertising revenue stream with Skype In and Out. This is attractive to Google as their revenue is very ad-based. In the future, there needs to be new revenue streams for Google's stock to justify its price.
At the same time, Google would just love to intermingle Skype and AdSense. It would be great. Every time you click on an ad you get a free minute of long distance. Sounds like a good idea for the home user who wants to talk to his family in India. I can only imagine the number of clicks happening. Ads change as you IM your friends and start talking about the latest movie star gossip. This is completely in line with Google's context sensitive advertising.
Google likes to create in-house, but they also know when to buy. The Picasso Image browser and Prya - Blogger.com - are some good examples of technology purchases they have made. It is not out of the question for Google to buy technology.
Google and Skype are technology companies who care about company culture, and dare I say it, world culture. Now we have the hottest technology company in Google buying the telecom killer of tomorrow, Skype.
Wonder twin powers activate ... form of ... the Fantastic Four.
You must be running pretty low on RAM to not be able to run 4 or 5 IM programs. Perhaps you should upgrade from Windows 95 while you're at it?
Since we're jumping to conclusions about Google's corporate strategy today, I'll go ahead and give mine. It seems to me like Google wants to get into the field with their product and see where it goes.
Google Talk seems pretty barebones at the moment, but if we remember correctly, so was Gmail when it first came out. I've had it from day 3 or 4, and it wasn't really all that great at the time--the only thing to write home about was the amount of space you have.
Anyway, that seems to be Google's strategy with everything--launch a product in beta, then continuously improve it until everyone loves it. I could be wrong, but it seems like they would be competing with Skype and using their own in-house programs, rather than buying them out.
Just a thought...
I don't have a reliable source for this, but supposedly there is around a 1 in 200 chance of something going fatally wrong on a shuttle flight. I believe NASA is working on somewhere around 120 space shuttle missions; Challenger and Columbia are the two where the crew has been lost. Those are the only two that I can think of--if they're the only two, then the chances are 1.6% right now of something going wrong.
I would be extremely happy if the astronauts made it down safely, but chances are working against them. Hopefully, the shuttle will be able to descend below the atmosphere before friction totally overheats the tears in the padding.
While plugins like the one that Sun released are nice, the battle of course is with flexibility. That's why people build their own content management or forum systems, even though there are plenty of choices like Mambo and PHPBB. Sure, plugins are at a lower level, but the point stands--they can't always provide the flexibility necessary.
The challenge with Ajax, and complex DHTML is that a slight error produces big problems.
I think the challenge with any program is that errors produce problems. That's why they're called errors. Thankfully, most languages, including JavaScript/DHTML/AJAX/whatever we call it this week, have a try/catch error handler.
As we all know, this is a suit over a non-compete clause stating that M$ is a direct competitor to Google.
Following this, anyone who's ever worked for Microsoft ever basically can't get a job anywhere, considering that M$ thinks everyone is a competitor. Heck, I work for a healthcare company and I'll bet we "compete" with them.
I know you were being sarcastic. I'll just laugh next time.
As I'm sure has been said before, personal preferences in music aren't governed by other people. I'm willing to bet $50 that not a single person on slashdot likes your whole collection of music either. Granted, I don't listen to Jessica Simpson or Kelly Clarkson, but considering they're selling quite a bit of music, I'd say somebody does. Ok, I'm done trolling now.
I agree. Although whitelists are good, they tend to become annoying, much more so than receiving spam. Gmail manages to block about 200 emails of spam per day for me, and lets in maybe 4 or 5.
At least for a while, the SenderID system will end up blocking too many valid emails and will irritate users. I suppose after it's been around for a year or so and they have a decent system and database for the whitelist, the system will see the results that Microsoft wants.
Hotmail sucks anyway...Gmail is far superior in every sense.