What it means for me is that I'll have to put off writing my best-selling novel until 2007. It's too bad, because I was really looking forward to those $1,000,000 book deals that I'll have to choose between.
Nobody said that everyone should be rewarded equally, just that everyone should have access to a minimal level of healthcare. I've no problem with richer people getting private hospital rooms, or faster access to doctors. But a middle-class person shouldn't have to declare bankruptcy because his kid just happened to get appendicitis while he was between jobs.
It's like access to the police. If a poor person is getting robbed, the police (hopefully) don't tell him it's tough luck because he didn't pay for 'police protection'.
Yes, Kong, a remake of a remake of a story that was pretty dumb to begin with, was one of the most beautiful, and deadly boring, movies I've seen in years. At the end, I was cheering for the planes.
I've never purchased anything from Itunes for my daughter's ipod because Itunes consistently crashes my fairly new Windows PC. So I end up using gtkpod on a Linux machine, and all the songs are ripped from CD's we own.
Can work the other way too. You can be conservative when you're young because you think your destiny is in your own hands, and that people who fail are lazy and/or stupid. As you get older, your realize that much of our success is luck and that it makes sense for us to have the government help out those who are less fortunate.
I think maybe you're a little spoiled. Were you driving a car in the 60's? It was quite common then for a car to have mechanical problems, or a flat tire, requiring you to call a tow truck. And without cell phones, that wasn't always so easy.
Now and then, it strikes me that the cheap car I've had for the last 6 years has never broken down. And that does make me "happier, safer, and richer".
I agree. The right thing to do is to have us pay the true cost of gasoline; ie, take the cost of all our Middle East military operations and raise the gas tax to cover them.
There's one more which I think trumps all of yours:
Know someone at the company you wish to work for.
Fact is, you could be the greatest developer since Knuth; but if nobody in a position to hire knows you, your resume will end up in the same black hole as those of the people who would be challenged to write "hello world".
I once went to an employment seminar given by one of these companies. At the end, the speaker explained that to apply for one of their jobs, you had to print out the.pdf application from their web site, fill it in, and mail it to them. When asked by an audience member why we couldn't apply on-line, she explained that they had tried to provide that service, but couldn't get it to work right!
Made me wonder if they were hiring the right people:-)
1) is good advice. I had a job once where I learned after several weeks that the guy I replaced had committed suicide. I wondered if the code he wrote was haunted.
You've nailed it. When I was out of work a few years ago (and I'm over 50 and still coding), I considered leaving all dates off my resume. A recruited told me that everyone in the business knows that you might as well scream "I'm over 50".
Of course, since age discrimination is supposed to be illegal, I've got to wonder why anyone would even care...
Maybe HR people assume this, but is it really true? A few years ago when I was looking for work, nobody asked me my salary requirements. In fact, nobody asked me anything until I got my current job.
Sometimes I think we old folks should leave off our oldest experience from our resumes, then make a 'mistake' when indicating the year we graduated college. If/when you get an interview, you correct it ("Sorry, I meant to type '1979', not '1997'...").
The trouble is that most employers won't care if you learned it on your own. They want you to have paid experience (often for longer than the technology has been around).
I think the only semi-honest way around this is to start using, say, Ruby at your current job (even if all you use it for is to write a tic-tac-to game).
I need to get my glasses checked. At first, I read the title as "IPod transition to cost..." and thought how that's a lot of money to spend on Nano's (or whatever), knowing that there will probably be another new model coming to replace that within the year.
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You're right, it must be a bandwidth problem, probably due to the fact that God only can get wireless access.
What it means for me is that I'll have to put off writing my best-selling novel until 2007. It's too bad, because I was really looking forward to those $1,000,000 book deals that I'll have to choose between.
Yes, but they have to have 5 years experience in the latest technologies (which have only been out for 3 years).
Nobody said that everyone should be rewarded equally, just that everyone should have access to a minimal level of healthcare. I've no problem with richer people getting private hospital rooms, or faster access to doctors. But a middle-class person shouldn't have to declare bankruptcy because his kid just happened to get appendicitis while he was between jobs.
It's like access to the police. If a poor person is getting robbed, the police (hopefully) don't tell him it's tough luck because he didn't pay for 'police protection'.
Yes, Kong, a remake of a remake of a story that was pretty dumb to begin with, was one of the most beautiful, and deadly boring, movies I've seen in years. At the end, I was cheering for the planes.
Yes, and I hear they're going to have an OS "better than Linux in 6 months".
What you are proposing is installing an operating system that is completely foreign to them.
Um, my daughter does her papers at home using OpenOffice on a Linux box. She can then work on them at school, also using OpenOffice on a Linux box.
The industry can be vibrant, but that doesn't mean that the employment market has to be.
It could very well be that the US's only comparative advantage is in farming because we have lots of land.
I've never purchased anything from Itunes for my daughter's ipod because Itunes consistently crashes my fairly new Windows PC. So I end up using gtkpod on a Linux machine, and all the songs are ripped from CD's we own.
The moral thing would be to provide the Chinese with information showing the journalist was innocent (which IMO, he is).
Can work the other way too. You can be conservative when you're young because you think your destiny is in your own hands, and that people who fail are lazy and/or stupid. As you get older, your realize that much of our success is luck and that it makes sense for us to have the government help out those who are less fortunate.
I wonder how many people work on Linux... but I bet it's more than 15-20. And I doubt if they have a lot of meetings.
I think maybe you're a little spoiled. Were you driving a car in the 60's? It was quite common then for a car to have mechanical problems, or a flat tire, requiring you to call a tow truck. And without cell phones, that wasn't always so easy.
Now and then, it strikes me that the cheap car I've had for the last 6 years has never broken down. And that does make me "happier, safer, and richer".
High-tech calculators replacing math skills
The real tragedy here is that nobody knows how to use a slide rule anymore.
Yes, I'm looking forward to the quality of Windows software mated with the bargain prices of Apple hardware.
That's probably why vehicles like the Saturn Vue are sold as SUV's rather than minivans.
I agree. The right thing to do is to have us pay the true cost of gasoline; ie, take the cost of all our Middle East military operations and raise the gas tax to cover them.
The trouble is that half the SUV commercials show someone zooming down a snow-covered road.
There's one more which I think trumps all of yours:
Know someone at the company you wish to work for.
Fact is, you could be the greatest developer since Knuth; but if nobody in a position to hire knows you, your resume will end up in the same black hole as those of the people who would be challenged to write "hello world".
I once went to an employment seminar given by one of these companies. At the end, the speaker explained that to apply for one of their jobs, you had to print out the .pdf application from their web site, fill it in, and mail it to them. When asked by an audience member why we couldn't apply on-line, she explained that they had tried to provide that service, but couldn't get it to work right!
Made me wonder if they were hiring the right people:-)
1) is good advice. I had a job once where I learned after several weeks that the guy I replaced had committed suicide. I wondered if the code he wrote was haunted.
(Still, it was a pretty decent place to work.)
You've nailed it. When I was out of work a few years ago (and I'm over 50 and still coding), I considered leaving all dates off my resume. A recruited told me that everyone in the business knows that you might as well scream "I'm over 50".
Of course, since age discrimination is supposed to be illegal, I've got to wonder why anyone would even care...
Maybe HR people assume this, but is it really true? A few years ago when I was looking for work, nobody asked me my salary requirements. In fact, nobody asked me anything until I got my current job.
Sometimes I think we old folks should leave off our oldest experience from our resumes, then make a 'mistake' when indicating the year we graduated college. If/when you get an interview, you correct it ("Sorry, I meant to type '1979', not '1997'...").
The trouble is that most employers won't care if you learned it on your own. They want you to have paid experience (often for longer than the technology has been around).
I think the only semi-honest way around this is to start using, say, Ruby at your current job (even if all you use it for is to write a tic-tac-to game).
I need to get my glasses checked. At first, I read the title as "IPod transition to cost..." and thought how that's a lot of money to spend on Nano's (or whatever), knowing that there will probably be another new model coming to replace that within the year.