Okay, let me fire off a couple of statistics. First of all, something like 90% of all exercise equipment purchased for the home are not used.
Second of all, if you are working indoors all day, it would probably be healthier for you to get out.
If you really really want to exercise indoors at home, your choices are, in order of cost, (1)buy a book on calisthenics, (2)buy some kind of video on aerobics or tae-bo, (3)buy some dumbell type weights and a book on soemm weight training, or (4) buy some kind of exercise machine, be it soloflex, or a treadmill or whatever.
If you are willing to leave the building, join a gym! Just go and exercise, get out of the house, have some fun. Go for a walk or a run. Tons of info on walking and running on the web, its cheap and its healthy.
DISCLAIMER: I am not, nor have I ever been, knowledgable of either medicine nor exercise. In fact I am just another fat middle aged programmer, so be careful whatever you do.
I have read, in the works of Steven Covey and the 7 Habits of Highly Effective whatevers, that you should try to envision yourself at your funeral, and picture what people are saying about you. Your children, coworkers, clergy, the guy from the donut shop, and so on.
It is from what these people say, summarizing your life and all the accomplishments therein, that you can glean precious kernels of wisdom that will help you focus your laser beam attention on whatever it is you wish most to have done.
That being said, I am afraid that I am at least as lost as you are. Frequently, I picture myself at that funeral, and all I can think of is a bunch of people saying "Boy, he just looks great (for a dead guy), doesn't he?"
But thats my problem, not yours. You need to figure out what you want. Then go for it. And if you don't know what you want, then just keep your nose in it and work hard. You know, ANYBODY who does a good job for 30 years at ANYTHING has no cause for shame.
Basically, movies with visual splendor, sweeping vistas, and such. Strong visual imagery. NOT action movies. The Matrix might be too much. Also, space is a heavy theme here.
10.)2001 a space Odysesy 9.)Dances With Wolves 8.)The Shining (esp the hallway big-wheel scenes) 7.)Gladiator 6.)Star Trek 3 (& only 3) 5.)Star Wars (episode whatever) 4.)Apollo 13 3.)Aliens 2.)Brazil
and the number one film to see on IMAX is of course...
Yes, the power and freedom of Yahoo now brought to Macintosh users. Well, Yahoo offers limited briefcase, web page, email all the other stuff.
Hmmmmm, what is that 100 dollars a year for exactly? iYahoo+a virus program?
Price gouging pisses me off. When a company prices something not based on cost, but based on what they can get away with, they piss off the customer. I bet this plan lasts about as long as Apple's internet access service.
If apple was smart, they would provide this service bundled with internet access for 15$ a month. Make people feel good about buying a mac. Give 'em a good deal. If you didn't need internet access, have free email and homepage and minimal disk storage, and offer a virus/disk space/email space packeage in levels from 25$ a year and up. Maybe offer people a year's free premium access when they buy a new pc so they don't feel raped.
But then, Apple screw's up like this all the time. They are the company with the superior technology that f***'s up in the marketing department, right?
where is gaming going next?
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What I wonder is how modern gaming will manage to integrate a social aspect. Back in the 80's the arcades were someplace you would go, and spend your money, and hang out. I loved the old games too. I remember being in awe of these two 30 something guys who mastered missile command and sould play it until they flipped the score over a million.
Now, I play those same games on MAME or on arcade games in my basement (I have 4 games and a pin) and I feel like a loser. I have kids and a family, and don't get out a lot, but I miss being able to see high scores of people you knew.
Now, everybody plays games on consoles in their living room. If you get a high score, its like, so what. Sure, there is online gaming, but that scales out too big, then you don't know anyone.
What gaming needs is the equivalent of a bowling alley. Someplace to go be online, play games, hang out, drink beer, meet girls. Wired this month had a great article on how urban Korean has spawned a series of gaming parlor's where people would go an dplay warcraft or whatever in a social environment.
Until we can integrate gaming into the natural behaviour patterns of man, something will be missing. Until then, I am very sorry, but were just a bunch of losers playing video games in our living rooms.
What insects could bight your bottom this summer 2002?
Will Lyme disease factor in your 2002 Summer reading list?
C'mon guys, this ain't news, it ain't even newsworthy. Just go to a big bookstore (or even amazon) and wander around. Books are like religions -- they are pretty much all the same anyway. peace --Pete
Think about it. CNET has never strived to achieve a benchmark for impartial reporting, they collect advertising revenue. So one of there biggest caveats is to not piss off 'the industry' as they see it. So they give all these least common denominator reports that don't have any useful information. They just gave a Netscape a review, and gave it the lowest possible score they could justify given that it was faster, more stable, and more W3C compliant than the big IE.
Think I'm wrong? By contrast, PCWeek, eWeek, and lots of other industry rags tend to be more impartial, and will generally call a turd a turd and a gem a gem, not vice versa.
But then there's audience too to calculate in too. I dare say that if Microsoft were to behave nicely and come out with a superier product that was priced fairly, some one here would find something to bitch about.
it should have gone like this...
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You're sending out mixed signals here," Brian insisted, none too warmly. "This isn't really a good reason for cancelling. We can talk about adjusting the pricing, because there are different plans, if that's a problem, and since we can piggyback on cable and you have no complaints, I'm afraid I just don't understand. What am I supposed to write down on the form? You're not making any sense."
"All right, how about this. I spend a lot of time writing for a counterculture oriented community based web portal that has a strong dissaproval of AOL and the mindless drones that tend to use their service. Also, AOL doesn't run on Linux, isn't open source, can't be legally hacked, and I can't run it on my heavily modified Sega Dreamcast! It is of no friggin' use to me whatsoever. I would rather dive headfirst into a bucket of cheerios soaking in 3 week old milk that has been sitting in my car growing rancid, and hold my head underwater until I passed out from nausea and/or oxygen deprivation than use this service one day further! Is that a good enough reason for you!"
"Hold on, now. How do you spell counterculture?"
Its not THAT difficult
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I just did a google search on "how to cancel AOL" and the number three hit was
http://www.aol.com/nethelp/findinghelponaol.html
Whats better, earthlink even will help you cancel your AOL account, among others
Now, as far as the 60 minutes on the phone, that does suck. I would advise people to send a letter in writing to their big ISP of choice, and keep a copy. When the charges show up on your credit card, just do a chargeback, and show your letter as proof. Let them call you.
Interestingly enough, doing a site search on earthlink (google search "cancel site:www.earthlink.com") yielded the above site on how to cancel OTHER services, but no information on how to cancel their OWN service. Must be some kind of an oversight. Yeah, that's it, an oversight. And I'm Paul Bunyan, (booming voice) founder of the internet.
What you need to do is to send a letter, preferably notorized, saying that you (a) have not worked with this company in the past and (b)never authorized, either verbally or in writing, that they contact you.
Its possible that the company you are interested in dealing with will still be gun shy, but in all likelyhood that will clear it up.
You could also try contacting XYZ recruiting and ask them point blank to call up the company and let them know that you are a free agent. Ask them how your resume got into the wrong hands without your authorization.
The thing to remember is that you are small potatoes. The thing the hiring company wants to avoid is legal red tape and a headaches. But the thing XYZ wants to avoid more than anything else is a damaged relationship with your hiring company. They will in all likelyhood be willing to do wehat you ask in order to retain that relationship.
Hopefully, anyway. These are always confusing. And IMHO, stay away from the lawyers. Once they get involved you almost certainly won't get a job, and very little good may come from it.
So now we are wondering which parts of movies fail to reflect reality in some meaningful way? The question is moot, it doesn't make sense, and it can't be made to make sense. Let me explain.
Movies aren't supposed to be real. As someone pointed out allready, "isn't the fact that Peter Parker was bit by a radioactive spider and turned into spider man impossible?"
Movies only attempt to reflect reality when convenient and/or feasible. Lets look at the X-Men. A great film. Are any of the stunts possible if you're not some kind of a mutant?
Now, I get really pissed off every time I see a computer in a hollywood movie and it looks like they just made up some wierdo TV-like screen and pretend its a computer, if only to satisfy some director's need for artistic clarity. I yearn to see real PC's be they linux or windows or whatever, just because it is so easy to represent PC's accurately, and hollywood never does.
But my favorite physics challenged stunt? That would be how they managed to the lovely rewrite Lt. Yar in STTNG back into the script by having her killed, sent back in time through a portal in an alternate universe, and having her half-romulan daughter who some how is in the present time the same age that Yar would have been and looks exactly like Yar even though she is half-romulan. Man, that's a stretch.
But looking for reality amongst the tale-spinners is at best a nebulous task. It is better to look for reasons that a movie makes us want to look the other way at those cheezy comuter screens, the conveniant plot devices, and even something obvious like how fast an object will fall to the groud.
I don't know, I read the memo about how much the investors like to see cash on the books anbd so forth and so on. But my BS detector just kept on going ping ping ping.
IMHO, if they are not paying you at all in late May/ early June, then the reason is that they are doing so is in fear of not making payroll. Some management wonk probably figured it was better to make up this 5% dealey than to actually miss payroll.
Their is a slippery slope that a company gets into once financial misery sets in.
Do: Good people leave, customers get skittish, lendors freak. Loop.
My advice: start looking now. The company is flashing big orange DANGER warning signals, and passsing out a memo saying to ignore them, they're just for some silly regulation.
Okay, I see stories like this on the news all the times, supposedly showing how our personal private lives are being invaded. Bunk!
If you don't want to reveal personal info, don't go into that club! I am sure that there are plenty of gin mills in Gotham that won't mind if you're anonymous. Now, the club should let you know that it has access to, and may be storing your personal information, but its like, jeesh guys, if they are scanning your drivers license on the way in, you might have an idea that the device doing this is going to capture data.
If you want to remain anonymous you can. Many bars still take cash, and are happy just glancing at your ID. Better yet, if you are an old fart like me, you don't ever get carded any more, so its easy for to remain anonymous. In fact, my life is so hopelessly boring that so far, no one has expressed any interest in tracking my actions. Just the other day in fact, the lady at the Safeway looked at my member card and said "no thanks." How depressing.
Yes! It matters a great deal! Those "AOL Idiots" spend money! And if the customer base jumps from 90% IE 10% other to 70% IE/30% other, it might not make a difference to some homemade page, but it will if you're Sears, or Amazon, (or Capital One). Especially when you are not talking about VHS/Betamax, but rather enforcing a *standard* that will only enlarge your customer base.
BTW, if you want to bug Capital One about their poor support for Mozilla/Netscape, send an email over to media.relations@capitalone.com.
I sent them an email this morning. Cheers to the low interest rate card. Cheers to the Frequent flyer miles and great customer service. Jeers to the lousy browser support.
A few more notes in addition to all that has been said.
Most times an offer to work 1099 or corp to corp means that you get paid when they get paid. So your recruiting firm gets paid net 30, you get paid 10 business days after that. Think about it--you start working January 1, they invoice the govt for your the month of January, they collect the money HOPEFULLY by February 28th. You get paid on or around March 10th. Or, if the government is unhappy, which is known to happen, they can withhold payment, which can really out you in a cash cruch.
By comparison, when you work as a W-2 employee then in most states, (or least NY,MD,VA,DC as far as I know), as an employee your time must get paid for regardless of when or if the recruiting firm ever gets paid by the goverment. Also, on a W-2 you generally get paid on a regular schedule, like bi-weekly or something. Thats the pro for W-2.
The pro to corp2corp is, usually more money, tax benefits, and also the yadda yadda yadda. My advice, try to get W-2 for about 10-15% less hourly than corp to corp. Failing that, make sure and build into your hourly rate enough money to pay an accountant and an attourney. Good luck.
I don't think its fair to say that Netscape failed because they stumbled. Remember, they were a struggling startup, who had three main sources of revenue, browser licenses, server software, and portal advertising (although I don't think that amounted to much).
So here comes microsoft with deep pockets, and they start giving their browser away. It was a great plan. They basically financed the cost of developing the browser, by integrating it with their OS (windows 95) and selling the two combined as a new product. Meanwhile, Netscape finds its oxygen slowly being cut off.
So then they get bought up by AOL, who is willing to give up on the browser war just to pursue the portal property and server software, which at the time seemed like valuable landscape. Now development of the browser has stumbled, but thats what happens when you go low-budget on development.
But microsoft is very guilty of dumping. They basically lowered the price to 0 to get share and hurt the competition, outwaited them, and then got the money back with the next release of the OS.
them1: software, shmoftware! Linux users are men! Write a script! Bootstrap the damn thing!
them2: I tore apart a sega dreamcast and converted my 27" jamma console into a multimedia photo archival unit. Check out the links here
them3: Why in gods name would you want to archive something as stupid as photos anyway? I just take pictures of my computer, and put them in a directory called/pub/computer/nerd/my/pc/
The question is not why or when or how but Is there any software available! Jeesh guys, its a simple question.
Of course, I don't know the answer to that question either, so file this one under a troll I guess.
I live less than 15 miles from AOL's Dulles VA headquarters. I am 1 mile from the telephone switch in the middle of town. I live in Northern Virginia, a hotbed of high-tech. I live less than 15 miles from Verisign, and 35 miles from Washington DC. I can't get a DSL line because in my new housing development Verizon saved a few bucks by "bundling" the phone lines on fiber. The cable provider has been promising high speed cable for three years with nothing yet. Because of the bundler I can get a limit 28K max connection, and the people on the phone company have told me repeatedly that 28K is all the bandwidth they are legally obligated to provide.
So, even though you and a friend have broadband, its not quite proof positive that universal access is here. Why do you think 802.11 NAN's are popping up all ovcer the place?
Everybody has to make a living. Everybody has to live with there own conscience. What are you asking for?
If you want someone to tell you its okay to send out spam, well try again. SPAM is wrong because you are basically syphoning off the system. This guy's dad makes a few bucks in a morally negligent way. It does create hard currency, but it won't do anything for your conscience or your resume, and chances are you will always regret working there.
If you have a conscience. Many people don't. Perhaps you are one of them. In which case, go help the spam guy. Its easy to rationalize. Hey! If not you someone else, right?
But this is a decision you need to make and no one else. Asking slashdot for advice is about as predictable as asking. "I was installing an OS on my PC, and was wondering whether I should use Windows or FreeBSD. What do you think?"
Anyway, good luck, and please take me off any lists you might come in contact with.
I can make a few guesses about this little mysterty
"Big, even for our standards"
"Count the days, count the minutes, count on >>being blown away"
"Beyond the rumour sites, way beyond"
"A backstage pass to the future"
How about:
Apple has finally regained its lost sanity and ported OS/X to x86 architecture. In an astounding jump, Apple, like Sega, has discovered it is better off as a pure software shop.
Or better yet:
This just in: Apple is not out of the hardware business entirely, they are also releasing an entirely new games system, called the iBox. Its going to cost over a thousand dollars and will only work with Apple brand televisions, which will be released later.
Okay, I'm just kidding, okay. JUST KIDDING. Comprende?
You say that you're salary was increasing by 50% a year since you started (?!)
That would give you... lemmee see... (1+ 0.50) ^ 5 =~ 7.5 times your starting salary, which was either really low or you're making a boatload now.
If you started at 14k you are now making 100k. Why bother with a degree?
Anyway, good luck to you man, and don't procrastinate. Start working to a degree now, finding time only gets harder. I'd look to a community college for an associates degree first work on it part time. From there maybe transfer somewhere and then stop working, and finish off the hard stuff in a year or 18 months.
Lets try and think this through. This is what you said that you need.
1.)A team to take care of charging people.
2.)A tech support group
3.)An advertising group
4.)An IT department
5.)Facilities and Logistics.
Here is my humble business plan.
1.)My billing team: Me, quickbooks, and excel.
2.)My tech support team: Me, until I get so many customers that I need to hire some help.
3.)An advertising group: I'll put an ad in the local paper.
4.)A legal group. I have a lawyer, and I'll get legal insurance.
5.)Facilities and Logistics: What? I'll use my basement, or rent cheap light industrial space.
Okay, starting a business is hard, but its not that hard. Just dive in and try it yourself. And I don't think you are going to need a "legal team" or an "advertising team" until you become large enough to have already proven that success is possible.
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Okay, let me fire off a couple of statistics. First of all, something like 90% of all exercise equipment purchased for the home are not used.
Second of all, if you are working indoors all day, it would probably be healthier for you to get out.
If you really really want to exercise indoors at home, your choices are, in order of cost, (1)buy a book on calisthenics, (2)buy some kind of video on aerobics or tae-bo, (3)buy some dumbell type weights and a book on soemm weight training, or (4) buy some kind of exercise machine, be it soloflex, or a treadmill or whatever.
If you are willing to leave the building, join a gym! Just go and exercise, get out of the house, have some fun. Go for a walk or a run. Tons of info on walking and running on the web, its cheap and its healthy.
DISCLAIMER: I am not, nor have I ever been, knowledgable of either medicine nor exercise. In fact I am just another fat middle aged programmer, so be careful whatever you do.
I have read, in the works of Steven Covey and the 7 Habits of Highly Effective whatevers, that you should try to envision yourself at your funeral, and picture what people are saying about you. Your children, coworkers, clergy, the guy from the donut shop, and so on.
It is from what these people say, summarizing your life and all the accomplishments therein, that you can glean precious kernels of wisdom that will help you focus your laser beam attention on whatever it is you wish most to have done.
That being said, I am afraid that I am at least as lost as you are. Frequently, I picture myself at that funeral, and all I can think of is a bunch of people saying "Boy, he just looks great (for a dead guy), doesn't he?"
But thats my problem, not yours. You need to figure out what you want. Then go for it. And if you don't know what you want, then just keep your nose in it and work hard. You know, ANYBODY who does a good job for 30 years at ANYTHING has no cause for shame.
10.)2001 a space Odysesy
9.)Dances With Wolves
8.)The Shining (esp the hallway big-wheel scenes)
7.)Gladiator
6.)Star Trek 3 (& only 3)
5.)Star Wars (episode whatever)
4.)Apollo 13
3.)Aliens
2.)Brazil
and the number one film to see on IMAX is of course...
1.)Blade Runner
Hmmmmm, what is that 100 dollars a year for exactly? iYahoo+a virus program?
Price gouging pisses me off. When a company prices something not based on cost, but based on what they can get away with, they piss off the customer. I bet this plan lasts about as long as Apple's internet access service.
If apple was smart, they would provide this service bundled with internet access for 15$ a month. Make people feel good about buying a mac. Give 'em a good deal. If you didn't need internet access, have free email and homepage and minimal disk storage, and offer a virus/disk space/email space packeage in levels from 25$ a year and up. Maybe offer people a year's free premium access when they buy a new pc so they don't feel raped.
But then, Apple screw's up like this all the time. They are the company with the superior technology that f***'s up in the marketing department, right?
Now, I play those same games on MAME or on arcade games in my basement (I have 4 games and a pin) and I feel like a loser. I have kids and a family, and don't get out a lot, but I miss being able to see high scores of people you knew.
Now, everybody plays games on consoles in their living room. If you get a high score, its like, so what. Sure, there is online gaming, but that scales out too big, then you don't know anyone.
What gaming needs is the equivalent of a bowling alley. Someplace to go be online, play games, hang out, drink beer, meet girls. Wired this month had a great article on how urban Korean has spawned a series of gaming parlor's where people would go an dplay warcraft or whatever in a social environment.
Until we can integrate gaming into the natural behaviour patterns of man, something will be missing. Until then, I am very sorry, but were just a bunch of losers playing video games in our living rooms.
What's on Your Summer 2002 Movie List?
What's on Your Summer 2002 Beer List?
What's on your Summer 2002 Computer Game list?
What insects could bight your bottom this summer 2002?
Will Lyme disease factor in your 2002 Summer reading list?
C'mon guys, this ain't news, it ain't even newsworthy. Just go to a big bookstore (or even amazon) and wander around. Books are like religions -- they are pretty much all the same anyway.
peace
--Pete
Think I'm wrong? By contrast, PCWeek, eWeek, and lots of other industry rags tend to be more impartial, and will generally call a turd a turd and a gem a gem, not vice versa.
But then there's audience too to calculate in too. I dare say that if Microsoft were to behave nicely and come out with a superier product that was priced fairly, some one here would find something to bitch about.
"All right, how about this. I spend a lot of time writing for a counterculture oriented community based web portal that has a strong dissaproval of AOL and the mindless drones that tend to use their service. Also, AOL doesn't run on Linux, isn't open source, can't be legally hacked, and I can't run it on my heavily modified Sega Dreamcast! It is of no friggin' use to me whatsoever. I would rather dive headfirst into a bucket of cheerios soaking in 3 week old milk that has been sitting in my car growing rancid, and hold my head underwater until I passed out from nausea and/or oxygen deprivation than use this service one day further! Is that a good enough reason for you!"
"Hold on, now. How do you spell counterculture?"
http://www.aol.com/nethelp/findinghelponaol.htm
Whats better, earthlink even will help you cancel your AOL account, among others
http://www.earthlink.net/home/benefits/switchin
Now, as far as the 60 minutes on the phone, that does suck. I would advise people to send a letter in writing to their big ISP of choice, and keep a copy. When the charges show up on your credit card, just do a chargeback, and show your letter as proof. Let them call you.
Interestingly enough, doing a site search on earthlink (google search "cancel site:www.earthlink.com") yielded the above site on how to cancel OTHER services, but no information on how to cancel their OWN service. Must be some kind of an oversight. Yeah, that's it, an oversight. And I'm Paul Bunyan, (booming voice) founder of the internet.
Then a Neo-Geo 1-slot Jamma Card for about 100$, and top it off with Metal SLug, both found on ebay for 150$ and 50$, respectively.
And I agree-- go with the arcade flavor. much nicer.
Its possible that the company you are interested in dealing with will still be gun shy, but in all likelyhood that will clear it up.
You could also try contacting XYZ recruiting and ask them point blank to call up the company and let them know that you are a free agent. Ask them how your resume got into the wrong hands without your authorization.
The thing to remember is that you are small potatoes. The thing the hiring company wants to avoid is legal red tape and a headaches. But the thing XYZ wants to avoid more than anything else is a damaged relationship with your hiring company. They will in all likelyhood be willing to do wehat you ask in order to retain that relationship.
Hopefully, anyway. These are always confusing. And IMHO, stay away from the lawyers. Once they get involved you almost certainly won't get a job, and very little good may come from it.
Movies aren't supposed to be real. As someone pointed out allready, "isn't the fact that Peter Parker was bit by a radioactive spider and turned into spider man impossible?"
Movies only attempt to reflect reality when convenient and/or feasible. Lets look at the X-Men. A great film. Are any of the stunts possible if you're not some kind of a mutant?
Now, I get really pissed off every time I see a computer in a hollywood movie and it looks like they just made up some wierdo TV-like screen and pretend its a computer, if only to satisfy some director's need for artistic clarity. I yearn to see real PC's be they linux or windows or whatever, just because it is so easy to represent PC's accurately, and hollywood never does.
But my favorite physics challenged stunt? That would be how they managed to the lovely rewrite Lt. Yar in STTNG back into the script by having her killed, sent back in time through a portal in an alternate universe, and having her half-romulan daughter who some how is in the present time the same age that Yar would have been and looks exactly like Yar even though she is half-romulan. Man, that's a stretch.
But looking for reality amongst the tale-spinners is at best a nebulous task. It is better to look for reasons that a movie makes us want to look the other way at those cheezy comuter screens, the conveniant plot devices, and even something obvious like how fast an object will fall to the groud.
I don't know, I read the memo about how much the investors like to see cash on the books anbd so forth and so on. But my BS detector just kept on going ping ping ping.
IMHO, if they are not paying you at all in late May/ early June, then the reason is that they are doing so is in fear of not making payroll. Some management wonk probably figured it was better to make up this 5% dealey than to actually miss payroll.
Their is a slippery slope that a company gets into once financial misery sets in.
Do:
Good people leave,
customers get skittish,
lendors freak.
Loop.
My advice: start looking now. The company is flashing big orange DANGER warning signals, and passsing out a memo saying to ignore them, they're just for some silly regulation.
good luck
--Pete
Okay, I see stories like this on the news all the times, supposedly showing how our personal private lives are being invaded. Bunk!
If you don't want to reveal personal info, don't go into that club! I am sure that there are plenty of gin mills in Gotham that won't mind if you're anonymous. Now, the club should let you know that it has access to, and may be storing your personal information, but its like, jeesh guys, if they are scanning your drivers license on the way in, you might have an idea that the device doing this is going to capture data.
If you want to remain anonymous you can. Many bars still take cash, and are happy just glancing at your ID. Better yet, if you are an old fart like me, you don't ever get carded any more, so its easy for to remain anonymous. In fact, my life is so hopelessly boring that so far, no one has expressed any interest in tracking my actions. Just the other day in fact, the lady at the Safeway looked at my member card and said "no thanks." How depressing.
Yes! It matters a great deal! Those "AOL Idiots" spend money! And if the customer base jumps from 90% IE 10% other to 70% IE /30% other, it might not make a difference to some homemade page, but it will if you're Sears, or Amazon, (or Capital One). Especially when you are not talking about VHS/Betamax, but rather enforcing a *standard* that will only enlarge your customer base.
BTW, if you want to bug Capital One about their poor support for Mozilla/Netscape, send an email over to media.relations@capitalone.com.
I sent them an email this morning. Cheers to the low interest rate card. Cheers to the Frequent flyer miles and great customer service. Jeers to the lousy browser support.
A few more notes in addition to all that has been said.
Most times an offer to work 1099 or corp to corp means that you get paid when they get paid. So your recruiting firm gets paid net 30, you get paid 10 business days after that. Think about it--you start working January 1, they invoice the govt for your the month of January, they collect the money HOPEFULLY by February 28th. You get paid on or around March 10th. Or, if the government is unhappy, which is known to happen, they can withhold payment, which can really out you in a cash cruch.
By comparison, when you work as a W-2 employee then in most states, (or least NY,MD,VA,DC as far as I know), as an employee your time must get paid for regardless of when or if the recruiting firm ever gets paid by the goverment. Also, on a W-2 you generally get paid on a regular schedule, like bi-weekly or something. Thats the pro for W-2.
The pro to corp2corp is, usually more money, tax benefits, and also the yadda yadda yadda. My advice, try to get W-2 for about 10-15% less hourly than corp to corp. Failing that, make sure and build into your hourly rate enough money to pay an accountant and an attourney. Good luck.
I don't think its fair to say that Netscape failed because they stumbled. Remember, they were a struggling startup, who had three main sources of revenue, browser licenses, server software, and portal advertising (although I don't think that amounted to much).
So here comes microsoft with deep pockets, and they start giving their browser away. It was a great plan. They basically financed the cost of developing the browser, by integrating it with their OS (windows 95) and selling the two combined as a new product. Meanwhile, Netscape finds its oxygen slowly being cut off.
So then they get bought up by AOL, who is willing to give up on the browser war just to pursue the portal property and server software, which at the time seemed like valuable landscape. Now development of the browser has stumbled, but thats what happens when you go low-budget on development.
But microsoft is very guilty of dumping. They basically lowered the price to 0 to get share and hurt the competition, outwaited them, and then got the money back with the next release of the OS.
him: I want software for linux that does x
/pub/computer/nerd/my/pc/
them1: software, shmoftware! Linux users are men! Write a script! Bootstrap the damn thing!
them2: I tore apart a sega dreamcast and converted my 27" jamma console into a multimedia photo archival unit. Check out the links here
them3: Why in gods name would you want to archive something as stupid as photos anyway? I just take pictures of my computer, and put them in a directory called
The question is not why or when or how but Is there any software available! Jeesh guys, its a simple question.
Of course, I don't know the answer to that question either, so file this one under a troll I guess.
I live less than 15 miles from AOL's Dulles VA headquarters. I am 1 mile from the telephone switch in the middle of town. I live in Northern Virginia, a hotbed of high-tech. I live less than 15 miles from Verisign, and 35 miles from Washington DC. I can't get a DSL line because in my new housing development Verizon saved a few bucks by "bundling" the phone lines on fiber. The cable provider has been promising high speed cable for three years with nothing yet. Because of the bundler I can get a limit 28K max connection, and the people on the phone company have told me repeatedly that 28K is all the bandwidth they are legally obligated to provide.
So, even though you and a friend have broadband, its not quite proof positive that universal access is here. Why do you think 802.11 NAN's are popping up all ovcer the place?
Dude,
Everybody has to make a living. Everybody has to live with there own conscience. What are you asking for?
If you want someone to tell you its okay to send out spam, well try again. SPAM is wrong because you are basically syphoning off the system. This guy's dad makes a few bucks in a morally negligent way. It does create hard currency, but it won't do anything for your conscience or your resume, and chances are you will always regret working there.
If you have a conscience. Many people don't. Perhaps you are one of them. In which case, go help the spam guy. Its easy to rationalize. Hey! If not you someone else, right?
But this is a decision you need to make and no one else. Asking slashdot for advice is about as predictable as asking. "I was installing an OS on my PC, and was wondering whether I should use Windows or FreeBSD. What do you think?"
Anyway, good luck, and please take me off any lists you might come in contact with.
I can make a few guesses about this little mysterty
"Big, even for our standards"
"Count the days, count the minutes, count on >>being blown away"
"Beyond the rumour sites, way beyond"
"A backstage pass to the future"
How about:
Apple has finally regained its lost sanity and ported OS/X to x86 architecture. In an astounding jump, Apple, like Sega, has discovered it is better off as a pure software shop.
Or better yet:
This just in: Apple is not out of the hardware business entirely, they are also releasing an entirely new games system, called the iBox. Its going to cost over a thousand dollars and will only work with Apple brand televisions, which will be released later.
Okay, I'm just kidding, okay. JUST KIDDING. Comprende?
You say that you're salary was increasing by 50% a year since you started (?!)
... lemmee see ... (1+ 0.50) ^ 5 =~ 7.5 times your starting salary, which was either really low or you're making a boatload now.
That would give you
If you started at 14k you are now making 100k. Why bother with a degree?
Anyway, good luck to you man, and don't procrastinate. Start working to a degree now, finding time only gets harder. I'd look to a community college for an associates degree first work on it part time. From there maybe transfer somewhere and then stop working, and finish off the hard stuff in a year or 18 months.
1.)A team to take care of charging people.
2.)A tech support group
3.)An advertising group
4.)An IT department
5.)Facilities and Logistics.
Here is my humble business plan.
1.)My billing team: Me, quickbooks, and excel.
2.)My tech support team: Me, until I get so many customers that I need to hire some help.
3.)An advertising group: I'll put an ad in the local paper.
4.)A legal group. I have a lawyer, and I'll get legal insurance.
5.)Facilities and Logistics: What? I'll use my basement, or rent cheap light industrial space.
Okay, starting a business is hard, but its not that hard. Just dive in and try it yourself. And I don't think you are going to need a "legal team" or an "advertising team" until you become large enough to have already proven that success is possible.
I think I played this game before.
Join frodo (reprsented by a small white sqare) while he tries to return home. Thrill to his narrow escapes while he attempts to recapure the one ring (represented by a single pixel), which has been stolen by a black bat, and is now guarded by three color coded dragons who reside in their corresponding castles.