I went for a job interview at Apple last year. I asked the hiring manager about the housing situation in the area. He told me he rents because he can't afford a house. I figured if my manager was renting, I'd have to live in a van down by the river. Needless to say, I didn't take a job there.
Technically, the picture isn't "printed" until the user's browser renders it on their screen. So the faithful Muslim who is complaining is actually committing the transgression.
Dial-up not quite "all but eliminated"
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The author must be having a dot-com bubble flashback about the rate of technology adoption. Nearly 1/3 of all active internet users in the US are still on dialup (http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0604/). If that's "all but eliminated" I'll be happy to play poker with you.
I think the apache proxy-ssl-htaccess solution is the best. But if you really want a no cost two-factor system (for curiosity's sake or to prevent us from knowing what pr0n is on your Tivo) consider rolling your own security with a one-time pad. Here is a nice article on the subject at IBM. If you get something like this working, let us know.
1.4 Scalability
The primary reasons to deploy Zeroconf protocols are simplicity and
ease-of-use. Scalability is important but it is a secondary goal.
Thus, scalability should not detract from the primary goals of
simplicity and ease-of-use.
Well, I am already in the Midwest. But it's Naperville near Chicago. So I am looking to get farther from Chicago to where living is cheaper. I lived in Northield, MN for some time and that was good. It is a small college town and was cheap at the time. But the sprawl from Minneapolis has reached it and it's actually more expensive than Naperville, IL!
I'm interested in places similar to Northfield though. I think it might be nice to be near Madison, WI or Ann Arbor, MI.
I think I am in the same boat as the reviewer in some ways. I have been a programmer in the corporate world for about 10 years now and have pretty much burnt out. Deep down I imagine I still enjoy coding, but it's just so hard to dras my ass into this place every day now. I even find myself getting bitter when I see other programmers reading technical books on the train. I wish I was still that interested.
So what the hell am I getting at here. I guess the one complaint about the book is that it portrays many people who are financiall well off changing course in their life. But most of us are really just getting by. Basically my position is I have a job I don't really care for in an environment I would never choose but I am stuck because I have to pay for a house in a suburb I don't really like and my wife actively hates just so my kids can go to safe schools so that they can someday get a crappy job like mine. Meanwhile I am worried about my oldest girl because middle school is coming up and that is just hell especially in the consumer oriented suburb where I live. And though I am no luddite and not a right winger nor religious, those are not my values in the end.
Enough about my problems. Seems to me like a discussion of what a Regular Guy(tm) would do to change course in his and his family's life would be of interest. Let me share with you the plan that has been brooding in my brain for a few months here.
First, I have been wanting to home school the kids for some time. If you figure that my kids spend 6 hours per day in school but get 1/30th the teachers attention, then what are they doing with the other 5 hours and 48 minutes. Waiting. But then there is the 1 and a half hours of homework. Seems like I am already home schooling. The rest is baby sitting.
So if I home school, I eliminate the need to live someplace lame because of the schools. Now I can buy a cheap house. I am thinking of someplace out in a somewhat rural area near a halfway decent small city, hopefully with a decent university. I choose a rural location because I would like to have a decent garden and greenhouse so I need a little more land.
Selling my expensive house means I can get out of debt (including my car) and still have enough for a down payment on the cheap house. Buying the cheap house means I don't have to make $100K at some corporate whore-house. Hopefully this will mean both me and the wife can just work part-time which will leave time for the home schooling.
Of course this plan is full of holes still. I am concerned about the kids having enough friends, so I don't want to move to the middle of nowhere. Any suggestions from folks here about good locations that fit my description, or decent ways to pick up part time work? Much appreciated.
I think the TV let's you believe you have independent thoughts. I bet if you try you can correlate most of your thoughts to a television character or a marketing effort. I'd help you but I'm in the no commercial TV camp, so I could't identify the characters for you. Ask a friend who also watches your programs to help.
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Fixed it for you. Seriously though, carry on being a prima donna. It makes finding work that much easier for me.
You know you've done wrong when a degenerate from Gawker shambles out of their circuit party to rationalize it.
I went for a job interview at Apple last year. I asked the hiring manager about the housing situation in the area. He told me he rents because he can't afford a house. I figured if my manager was renting, I'd have to live in a van down by the river. Needless to say, I didn't take a job there.
Technically, the picture isn't "printed" until the user's browser renders it on their screen. So the faithful Muslim who is complaining is actually committing the transgression.
The author must be having a dot-com bubble flashback about the rate of technology adoption. Nearly 1/3 of all active internet users in the US are still on dialup (http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0604/). If that's "all but eliminated" I'll be happy to play poker with you.
Why do you bother?
I think the apache proxy-ssl-htaccess solution is the best. But if you really want a no cost two-factor system (for curiosity's sake or to prevent us from knowing what pr0n is on your Tivo) consider rolling your own security with a one-time pad. Here is a nice article on the subject at IBM. If you get something like this working, let us know.
Yeah. That's my mantra too. I think it takes about 7 years to actually believe it ;)
Well, I am already in the Midwest. But it's Naperville near Chicago. So I am looking to get farther from Chicago to where living is cheaper. I lived in Northield, MN for some time and that was good. It is a small college town and was cheap at the time. But the sprawl from Minneapolis has reached it and it's actually more expensive than Naperville, IL!
I'm interested in places similar to Northfield though. I think it might be nice to be near Madison, WI or Ann Arbor, MI.
Thanks for your thoughts.
I think I am in the same boat as the reviewer in some ways. I have been a programmer in the corporate world for about 10 years now and have pretty much burnt out. Deep down I imagine I still enjoy coding, but it's just so hard to dras my ass into this place every day now. I even find myself getting bitter when I see other programmers reading technical books on the train. I wish I was still that interested.
So what the hell am I getting at here. I guess the one complaint about the book is that it portrays many people who are financiall well off changing course in their life. But most of us are really just getting by. Basically my position is I have a job I don't really care for in an environment I would never choose but I am stuck because I have to pay for a house in a suburb I don't really like and my wife actively hates just so my kids can go to safe schools so that they can someday get a crappy job like mine. Meanwhile I am worried about my oldest girl because middle school is coming up and that is just hell especially in the consumer oriented suburb where I live. And though I am no luddite and not a right winger nor religious, those are not my values in the end.
Enough about my problems. Seems to me like a discussion of what a Regular Guy(tm) would do to change course in his and his family's life would be of interest. Let me share with you the plan that has been brooding in my brain for a few months here.
First, I have been wanting to home school the kids for some time. If you figure that my kids spend 6 hours per day in school but get 1/30th the teachers attention, then what are they doing with the other 5 hours and 48 minutes. Waiting. But then there is the 1 and a half hours of homework. Seems like I am already home schooling. The rest is baby sitting.
So if I home school, I eliminate the need to live someplace lame because of the schools. Now I can buy a cheap house. I am thinking of someplace out in a somewhat rural area near a halfway decent small city, hopefully with a decent university. I choose a rural location because I would like to have a decent garden and greenhouse so I need a little more land.
Selling my expensive house means I can get out of debt (including my car) and still have enough for a down payment on the cheap house. Buying the cheap house means I don't have to make $100K at some corporate whore-house. Hopefully this will mean both me and the wife can just work part-time which will leave time for the home schooling.
Of course this plan is full of holes still. I am concerned about the kids having enough friends, so I don't want to move to the middle of nowhere. Any suggestions from folks here about good locations that fit my description, or decent ways to pick up part time work? Much appreciated.
I think the TV let's you believe you have independent thoughts. I bet if you try you can correlate most of your thoughts to a television character or a marketing effort. I'd help you but I'm in the no commercial TV camp, so I could't identify the characters for you. Ask a friend who also watches your programs to help.