I agree with the many comments here that it's a big mistake. At least on its own. I work for a software development company that also offers hosting. We have consistently LOST money on hosting, but offer it anyway (primarily as a courtesy to our custom development clients).
You know what? 95% of your trouble tickets will be generated by 5% of your clients. That's a simple fact. They will drive you out of your mind with the stupidest problems imaginable, eating up time that could otherwise be spent on actually generating money. ("Why isn't my PHP page rendering? Oh, it was my mistake? Why do I have to pay you to troubleshoot that?")
If you want to be able to pay your bills, either set this up as a write-off associated with something that actually generates income, or just stay away from it altogether.
Dispositions are required attendance, which is why a subpoena is generally issued to enforce them. If he blows off showing up, the consequences (if any) are entirely up to the judge who issued the subpoena.... who, if particularly pissed off that day, could find him in contempt of court and sentence him to jail time. Under the circumstances, though, I can't see any (reasonable) judge doing this.
I don't give a damn if people respect me for being a woman in the computer field. When I interview programmers for my company, I care about two things: 1) technical savvy, and 2) ability to communicate. All I've asked in my professional career is for the same consideration. I have never hired a woman based on her sex, and never would.
Unfortunately, I understand that there are some who do, and I agree with some here that it does both the company and the individuals involved a disservice in the end.
...aren't discouraged from this field, think again.
I've been in IT for 27+ years, first as a COBOL programmer on a Honeywell DPS/8, then as an SCO Unix developer, and now as a Windoze developer/lead. I'm female. EVERY STEP OF THE WAY I have been discouraged, disparaged, talked down to, brushed aside. Granted, it's been less in the past 10 years than it was earlier, but it's STILL there. It's run the gamut, from my parents (who leaned on my heavily to become a secretary or bank teller), to fellow (male) students who pointedly excluded me from study groups, to clients--sight-unseen. One potential client, when told by my boss that I would be on site the next day to troubleshoot their problem, told him in a crestfallen manner "...can't you come out instead? She's just a woman..." They'd never even heard of me before - this was not related to my performance, but simply to my sex. This was NOT an isolated incident.
YES, I love to tinker. I work on my motorcycle (CBR600RR, thank you very much) in my spare time.
YES, I love to code, AND I'm self taught (from the time I was 12, using Basic on a CP/M system).
NO, I wouldn't be doing this if I had listened to ANYONE who sought to "help" me by steering me toward a more "suitable" career. I know MANY women who gave up and left pursuing a computer-related career because of the discouragement. I'm too thick-headed, I guess.
YES, it still is like this for women. I recently went back to university to pursue an advanced degree - last semester, I took an undergraduate course; the first week, one of the other women in the class was lamenting the fact that so many male students were always telling her she shouldn't be in CSE because she was a girl, and it was a "man's field." Excuse me!? This is 2006... in the United States??
I had hoped, when I was young, that by the time I was in my mid-40s the playing field would be a bit more level. Judging from the comments here, there's still a loooong way to go.
...Then it's not a priority. Which I can understand, at a small company (such as mine) there are creditors to be paid and clients to be coddled. Who has time for non-billable hours?
Our website has always been on the back burner, and has only been updated when someone (lately, me) got a wild hair on an evening/weekend.... which works out to an average of 0.00056 of a person.
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I agree with the many comments here that it's a big mistake. At least on its own. I work for a software development company that also offers hosting. We have consistently LOST money on hosting, but offer it anyway (primarily as a courtesy to our custom development clients).
You know what? 95% of your trouble tickets will be generated by 5% of your clients. That's a simple fact. They will drive you out of your mind with the stupidest problems imaginable, eating up time that could otherwise be spent on actually generating money. ("Why isn't my PHP page rendering? Oh, it was my mistake? Why do I have to pay you to troubleshoot that?")
If you want to be able to pay your bills, either set this up as a write-off associated with something that actually generates income, or just stay away from it altogether.
Dispositions are required attendance, which is why a subpoena is generally issued to enforce them. If he blows off showing up, the consequences (if any) are entirely up to the judge who issued the subpoena.... who, if particularly pissed off that day, could find him in contempt of court and sentence him to jail time. Under the circumstances, though, I can't see any (reasonable) judge doing this.
Incredibly old news. EE Times reported on it at the time, correctly referring to SHA-1 as a hashing algorithm, nothing more... by itself, anyway.
Unfortunately, I understand that there are some who do, and I agree with some here that it does both the company and the individuals involved a disservice in the end.
I've been in IT for 27+ years, first as a COBOL programmer on a Honeywell DPS/8, then as an SCO Unix developer, and now as a Windoze developer/lead. I'm female. EVERY STEP OF THE WAY I have been discouraged, disparaged, talked down to, brushed aside. Granted, it's been less in the past 10 years than it was earlier, but it's STILL there. It's run the gamut, from my parents (who leaned on my heavily to become a secretary or bank teller), to fellow (male) students who pointedly excluded me from study groups, to clients--sight-unseen. One potential client, when told by my boss that I would be on site the next day to troubleshoot their problem, told him in a crestfallen manner "...can't you come out instead? She's just a woman..." They'd never even heard of me before - this was not related to my performance, but simply to my sex. This was NOT an isolated incident.
YES, I love to tinker. I work on my motorcycle (CBR600RR, thank you very much) in my spare time.
YES, I love to code, AND I'm self taught (from the time I was 12, using Basic on a CP/M system).
NO, I wouldn't be doing this if I had listened to ANYONE who sought to "help" me by steering me toward a more "suitable" career. I know MANY women who gave up and left pursuing a computer-related career because of the discouragement. I'm too thick-headed, I guess.
YES, it still is like this for women. I recently went back to university to pursue an advanced degree - last semester, I took an undergraduate course; the first week, one of the other women in the class was lamenting the fact that so many male students were always telling her she shouldn't be in CSE because she was a girl, and it was a "man's field." Excuse me!? This is 2006... in the United States??
I had hoped, when I was young, that by the time I was in my mid-40s the playing field would be a bit more level. Judging from the comments here, there's still a loooong way to go.
...Then it's not a priority. Which I can understand, at a small company (such as mine) there are creditors to be paid and clients to be coddled. Who has time for non-billable hours? Our website has always been on the back burner, and has only been updated when someone (lately, me) got a wild hair on an evening/weekend.... which works out to an average of 0.00056 of a person.