I work in the Gaming Industry in Nevada. Its not a black-mark on your resume from any societal/value thing. However, its a boring, crappy, narrow-minded industry. get out now and do something more interesting.
"These are tough times. Hard to find yourself work. A man can get a job, he might not look too close at what that job is."
(Firefly quote, but I remember it applying to me once before)
In addition, don't be afraid to make contacts with potential employers directly. The best jobs I had I got by talking directly to the employer, not by going through a headhunter.
I've found it far more beneficial to have a reference at the company (even if it's social) rather than working through headhunters. For one company, I got hired by a company through a reference. The headhunter I knew had trouble placing people at the same company.
My complaint is that the author is roasting the.Net platform as compared to "GNU/Linux". That is like comparing the performance of Java to OS/2. One is a programing platform, the other is an OS.
While true, there are certain programming language / OS pairings in the high performance, high availability Enterprise space. Specifically,.Net running on Windows and Java running on Linux. Yes there are other choices, but if you did a survey you probably would find most non-legacy, Enterprise systems are one of these two.
It seems unlikely that these will weather very well, so we'll have to see how they cope with thermal cycling and storm stresses.
I'd think that people can be reasonably expected to be somewhat unhappy when their roof doesn't last as long as it should. So I'd think Dow would have put a bit of effort into making sure that these things don't break that easily.
I hope nothing in these make them less fire resistant than proper shingles these days.
(Yes, I live in Southern California. How did you guess?)
If the Feds paid nearly 10 million bucks for that I am obviously in the wrong line
of work. It looks like something I could knock off in a few weeks with Django and MySQL.
The site does very little if you don't have Flash, BTW. Many pages don't even give you a
"You don't have Flash" message. You just get blank white pages. I make a point of not having Flash on
my main Linux box, just to see how this tool of the devil is poisoning the net.
...laura
While I will agree with you that 1) many sites can be built more user friendly with less work using the right tools and 2) Flash is evil, you must remember they need to interface with a bunch of legacy government servers to get the data. That's a royal pain in itself.
People smart enough to pull that kind of thing off know that the cops really aren't stupid and that spending time in jail with really dumb people would be worse for them than for normal dumb crooks.
Victims of crimes of this nature don't want their investors/customers/competitors to know thay have been ripped off so they try not to advertise the fact that they have been ripped off.
Also, people that smart tend to have other options with better risk to profit ratios.
But they probably are facing quotas (at least, I've heard reports of such).
Circuit City's salespeople didn't get commission (I asked once when I wanted to make sure a good sales guy got commission for something) even before the fire/re-hire incident. And now they are out of business...
Incidentally, this is why $100 worth of beer on the company expense account provided in the fridge at work is going to be worth a lot more than $100 divided up as higher salary among your workers.
like helium perhaps?
or lower the viscosity of the working fluid by operating under partial vacuum?
-nB
Helium wouldn't work. You'd want higher density (speed of sound is higher in water than air). Viscosity isn't quite the issue. The issue is more how smoothly the air or fluid travels (which is why approaching the speed of sound is bad).
When you factor in the gas used to transport the mail, plus the servers used by the shipping company, the gas used to cut the trees, transport them, make paper, etc, it quickly becomes more energy efficient to send things electronically.
I wonder, though. Would the cost of an iPod touch + the necessary apps be less than the co-pay for the 10-20x as expensive device? I know this would vary from plan to plan, and yes it could be argued that this removes insurance's responsibility to pay for needs, but just a thought...
This describes many smaller and even moderate-sized organizations. Every non-tech office I'm familiar with of suffers from frequent (compared to gmail) and severe (day long or multi-day) e-mail outages.
The team I work on does scrum and our scrum master is effectively a project manager. The interaction with other teams in the company; making decisions on priorities; holding people accountable... these are things you can't leave to an intern who will be steamrolled by seasoned engineers. At the same time, the skill set is different from engineering, so don't waste the best and brightest engineer in a role that doesn't necessarily match their skill set.
i would really hate to have my privacy intruded upon while walking around in public;p
Solid point. However, there is a difference between:
- Your actions going unrecorded in public
- Your actions being recorded as a matter of chance (someone random taking your picture or accidentally including you in one)
- Your actions always being recorded.
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The question is not "What kind of cloud computing project costs $32M?" The question is "Is research into the benefits of cloud computing worth $32M?"
As with many multi-million research grants, it looks less like valuable research and more like a handout.
I work in the Gaming Industry in Nevada. Its not a black-mark on your resume from any societal/value thing. However, its a boring, crappy, narrow-minded industry. get out now and do something more interesting.
"These are tough times. Hard to find yourself work. A man can get a job, he might not look too close at what that job is."
(Firefly quote, but I remember it applying to me once before)
In addition, don't be afraid to make contacts with potential employers directly. The best jobs I had I got by talking directly to the employer, not by going through a headhunter.
I've found it far more beneficial to have a reference at the company (even if it's social) rather than working through headhunters. For one company, I got hired by a company through a reference. The headhunter I knew had trouble placing people at the same company.
My complaint is that the author is roasting the .Net platform as compared to "GNU/Linux". That is like comparing the performance of Java to OS/2. One is a programing platform, the other is an OS.
While true, there are certain programming language / OS pairings in the high performance, high availability Enterprise space. Specifically, .Net running on Windows and Java running on Linux. Yes there are other choices, but if you did a survey you probably would find most non-legacy, Enterprise systems are one of these two.
It seems unlikely that these will weather very well, so we'll have to see how they cope with thermal cycling and storm stresses.
I'd think that people can be reasonably expected to be somewhat unhappy when their roof doesn't last as long as it should. So I'd think Dow would have put a bit of effort into making sure that these things don't break that easily.
I hope nothing in these make them less fire resistant than proper shingles these days.
(Yes, I live in Southern California. How did you guess?)
Also, he's not factoring in the 1-2 hours to get to the airport early.
Or dealing with TSA.
Or waiting for his checked bags to arrive at the baggage claim (something that takes 30-45 minutes in San Diego's tiny airport).
If the Feds paid nearly 10 million bucks for that I am obviously in the wrong line of work. It looks like something I could knock off in a few weeks with Django and MySQL.
The site does very little if you don't have Flash, BTW. Many pages don't even give you a "You don't have Flash" message. You just get blank white pages. I make a point of not having Flash on my main Linux box, just to see how this tool of the devil is poisoning the net.
...laura
While I will agree with you that 1) many sites can be built more user friendly with less work using the right tools and 2) Flash is evil, you must remember they need to interface with a bunch of legacy government servers to get the data. That's a royal pain in itself.
Two possibilities come to mind:
Also, people that smart tend to have other options with better risk to profit ratios.
Coincidence? That it's the same year Windows 7 was released? dun dun dun!
It's also the year in which Windows Vista adoption peaked.
Either Microsoft is planning on selling Windows 7 like tuppaware or what I just watched was the introduction to a very bad porno.
Just think of how many different interests can be satisfied with this cast.
I used to have a 50 pound tower, and I even carried it from one end of campus and back (one mile).
Today's geeks get to enjoy the luxury of being out of shape with their EEE PCs and Macbook Airs.
But they probably are facing quotas (at least, I've heard reports of such).
Circuit City's salespeople didn't get commission (I asked once when I wanted to make sure a good sales guy got commission for something) even before the fire/re-hire incident. And now they are out of business...
Incidentally, this is why $100 worth of beer on the company expense account provided in the fridge at work is going to be worth a lot more than $100 divided up as higher salary among your workers.
Depends, is it Coors or Guiness? :-)
like helium perhaps? or lower the viscosity of the working fluid by operating under partial vacuum? -nB
Helium wouldn't work. You'd want higher density (speed of sound is higher in water than air). Viscosity isn't quite the issue. The issue is more how smoothly the air or fluid travels (which is why approaching the speed of sound is bad).
As opposed to "we have not succeded but let's sell it anyway", I guess.
You mean, like Vista?
I'm sure some linux person can make a vi joke out of this.
When you factor in the gas used to transport the mail, plus the servers used by the shipping company, the gas used to cut the trees, transport them, make paper, etc, it quickly becomes more energy efficient to send things electronically.
I wonder, though. Would the cost of an iPod touch + the necessary apps be less than the co-pay for the 10-20x as expensive device? I know this would vary from plan to plan, and yes it could be argued that this removes insurance's responsibility to pay for needs, but just a thought...
- which presents a nice illustration of the difference between bandwidth and latency! :)
It presents to me more of an image requiring much cleaning up of bird crap.
If hit just the right way, I think it will result in a duck being flung into space.
+1
This describes many smaller and even moderate-sized organizations. Every non-tech office I'm familiar with of suffers from frequent (compared to gmail) and severe (day long or multi-day) e-mail outages.
Actually, HIV has become less deadly as time goes by. There's been selective pressure for it to kill the hosts more slowly:
http://health.dailynewscentral.com/content/view/1716/
Fixed it for you.
Mod parent up!
The team I work on does scrum and our scrum master is effectively a project manager. The interaction with other teams in the company; making decisions on priorities; holding people accountable... these are things you can't leave to an intern who will be steamrolled by seasoned engineers. At the same time, the skill set is different from engineering, so don't waste the best and brightest engineer in a role that doesn't necessarily match their skill set.
i would really hate to have my privacy intruded upon while walking around in public ;p
Solid point. However, there is a difference between:
- Your actions going unrecorded in public
- Your actions being recorded as a matter of chance (someone random taking your picture or accidentally including you in one)
- Your actions always being recorded.
If you check back later, you'll find the following edit:
"... unless in a peace keeping mission where you were ordered to walk around with your weapon unloaded and ammo stored back at base."
with the history showing the name of some bureaucrat who's never served in the military.