Starting base for an RN= $39,000 One of the reasons for the shortage is the high turnover rate, caused in part by burnout. A significent percentage LEAVE the field after a few years. You disappoint me Larry. Quoting 2 year old data from an website so inaccurate its comical to try and prove somet
I made my thoughts very clear in this Link thread. I should note that I agree 100% with Mr. Kuperman and his statements above. Once again, its arguable as to whether their skills are really lacking as bad as you say right out of school. I've seen plenty of graduates that could program circles around some of the "Veterans" i've seen at some companies. Its a bit
Once again, its arguable as to whether their skills are really lacking as bad as you say right out of school. I've seen plenty of graduates that could program circles around some of the "Veterans" i've seen at some companies. Its a bit too complex or an issue to "Generalize" and say they are all inexperianced and require too much money. Again, 40K-50K is a pretty low income around here based on the cost of living and labor markets. I think t
Actually this depends entirely on where you live. In the high wage markets like New York and California, 50k is below poverty level. My cousin delivers car batteries for Interstate in CA and cleared $102,000 in 2004 and considers that "Just ok" (as he put it). Last year I was in CA for a vacation, and a small trailer home would set you back 250K. A decent house? Pull out that million from your bank. Around here (which happens to be close to
At any given time I have about 30 really good ideas in my head. Probably 5-6 of them might be considered "Brilliant" by most peoples standards. Now that I have lotsa money to make something a reality, the biggest problem i'm finding is to isolate the idea that will be the best and most likely to succeed. Thats the hard part, the ideas in general are quite easy for me to come up with. Picking the best one, and moving on it in the proper fash
The problem is that younger Americans combine a sense of entitlement with a lack of work ethic. As Island Dog points out, it's ridiculous that American college students graduate thinking they should get $50k per year (or even $40k per year) simply because they took some classes. That's what's making the US less competitive. </TD
Of course people want to get rich, its the American Dream. But I think its unfair to say they all exit college with the idea they want to get rich quick - I don't believe that is true for a minute. Most people I know, after college expect a reasonable wage - thats a pretty relative term, but I think in general, 50-55K a year minimum for a fresh graduate. Do you consider that excessive? Overseas living requirements and costs need to be cons
Yup, GmailFS came out last year, i've used it off and on since around July 2004. However be advised, Google tends to "Break" it often, I don't think they like it. http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/29/0237213&tid=198&tid=217&tid=106&tid=218
I just saw an article not more than a week ago, that said American programmers are STOMPING overseas programmers in all of the world coding competitions. Wish I could remember the link, but it was up on Drudgereport. Of the top 10 coders everytime they compete, 6-8 of them are Americans. The reason people use overseas programmers is because they are cheap. Thats it in a nutshell - they aren't better, and for small companies or indy de
Not sure i'd trust anyone with an AOL address. ! I've been called "Sue Happy" before, but in my mind its the last course of action when all else fails. Currently i'm sueing about 5 people/companies, but 3 of them are class action suits and 2 of those are against one of my previous employers for failing to pay overtime and other things. The other two are related to my fathers pa
Little light on the graphics card there. I'd of gone with a 6800GT-OC from BFG.. That 6600 is a bit on the lean side for upcoming games. I'd of saved the money, got your other system (which was fine) up and running, and spent the money on a 6800GT for that system instead. Processors mean almost nothing to most games once you get past the 2.4Ghz mark in my experiance, its all about Ram and Graphic card. Sounds like you needed an oil change
I found it boring. More of the same, but more polished and better presentation to mask the "More of the same" gameplay. The overall gameplay, level grind, endless slaying of pixels, and segregated content was pretty lousy. Add in the exponential leveling, and you pretty much have a generally poor concept in game design - but one that people are used to thanks to EQ. I'm not shocked its so popular, look at the state of PC gaming in the last
I heard on the news today that there is some new legislation going through Washington that forces credit companies to provide an easy and FREE method for people to get their credit reports from each of the three agencies once a year. The website referred to on the news was: https://www.annualcreditreport.com/ <a href="https://www.annualcreditreport.co
150 (customers) x 7000 (number of RadioShack Stores), then you have just over 1 million customers. (read hits)
I disagree 100% with this blog. I've run about 14 different retail stores, ranging from a 250K a year tiny store, all the way up to a 6.5 million a year megastore in a huge mall. I also have a few solid years running a million dollar internet business. The differences between them are pretty minimal, and if you don't think they are, then you probably don't have experiance on both sides of the spectrum. A single bad customer onlin
I prefer when games are created for high end systems, then options are added to "Scale down" to lower systems. But then again, I don't think people using 1Ghz machines should be dictating how games are made these days. Upgrade, its not expensive, sheesh. Always bugs me when developers downgrade their games to fit into low spec machines at the price of visual quality for those people with high end machines. Hope that doesn't happen here.</fo
Skype is pretty lame IMHO. I've had my entire household wired on VOIP for over a year. $14.99 a month, almost my entire state is my local calling area, and a featurelist that blows anything else away. http://www.voicepulse.com/ I have to say its flawless and transparent. Nobody even knows we are on VOIP, its never dropped calls, and we are 100% satisfied. I was paying $50-70 a month to SBC before I got fed up and went
First, native resolutions are only important when NOT in a game. Visual quality isn't effected whatsoever in a game when playing outside of the native. I play games at all resolutions, even 1600x1200, well over my native 1280x1024, and the visual quality is superb. But I must confess, 1280x1024 has been my choice resolution for the last couple years. MS rating of monitors is pretty misleading. There have been several articles (i'd have to d
I've noticed a trend in recent years that is pretty disturbing. In general its like the mentality, IQ, and general attitude of PC gamers you meet online is about 100x worse than it was 10 years ago. I can't quite figure out what would cause this, other than PC gaming is pretty mainstream now, and years ago it was mostly powerusers gaming. Becoming mainstream more s
I had such horrible experiances with Viewsonic CRT's, i'd never touch another product of theirs again. I had two seperate 19" CRTs from them, and both had the same issues, and what I would consider general lack of quality control. These Acers are a very pleasant surprise at an amazing price.
Get this one: http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=24-009-022&DEPA=1 Link $305, and sometimes, it goes on sale for $299, which is what I paid.. I was a staunch CRT user myself up until about a month ago, when I purchased 2 of these... I loved them so much, I purchased 2 more of them.. The space and power saving
'I do find it interesting, however, as lostintexas points out, that the insurance companies won't pay for weight loss programs. It is, I believe, one of the reasons our medical costs are skyrocketing; we don't want to invest enough in PREVENTION, rather than treatment (although I'd be surprised to find a doctor that disagreed.)'B
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Common sense is the best antivirus. I've got a couple years of strong security experiance in Virus/Malware. A big part of that common sense is using Firefox instead of IE. I can point an unsuspecting IE user to 50-60 web pages where they'd have trojans installed on their PC just by viewing the page. Firefox? No such luck. I use Arcabit on my personal systems because its so light, but in addition I practice common sense computing. Its serv
Like it or not, but its only going to get worse for fat people. I recommend you watch the DVD/Movie called "Supersize Me".. It really puts the statistics of our every increasinly fat population in perspective. The most ironic thing about it, is that its all preventable, and the only major contributing factor in all of it is that people just don't know when to stop eating. Your friends very causes for his problems, are his weight, so he shoul
Blogging is a fad, like anything else.. I give it another year or two and nobody will care about blogs. We'll already have moved on to the next big thing.
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