Just to clarify, what you're describing is web development or application programming - neither is really IT.

IT's purpose is to integrate technology (hardware and software) into the organization so that it aligns with the business model and goals.

Mostly it's designing, installing, maintaining the infrastructure to allow Tech to work for the business.

Coding is a very small part of that - especially in todays market where it is mostly out sourced.

Freelancing in IT is hard (except for the bottom feeders that help the mom and pop business shops and home users). Freelancing in Web dev / coder work is a dime a dozen - just join one of the hundreds of websites that specialize in cheap code work.

Until the site owners stop pimping out their sites to any and all ad engines, I'll use Adblock, NoScript, Flashblock, and anything else I deem necessary to prevent my systems from being targeted by Malware.

If site owners would run their own tested and approved ad's, I'd have zero problem with that, but since they don't have a clue what crap is being passed out by their site, I have no moral problem blocking them all.

Meh.

Might have a women crew member.

Won't disclose how long the mission will last.

Just another long line of China BS disclosing just the bare minimum to garner some "face" for their "great" space accomplishments.

Of course nothing that goes wrong will be reported. They're barely a step above NK for their PR releases, but wait, they prop up the US economy so lets all give them a rousing pat on the back.

So golf clap for China, they've stolen enough IP to duplicate what US/USSR did back in the 80's.

Which means with enough middlemen, the standard good old boy networking, and the proper paperwork, the US Military will be paying somewhere between $7000-$9000USD each in large quantities.

Yeah for the 1%er's!

A real live face to face conference, how 20th century.

Stay home, read the lecture notes and publications online.

Conferences are a huge time suck, rarely (make that pretty much never) a good use of your time, with little to no payback.

Anything worth learning will be in a peer review publication. Either the lecture will rehash the publication, or it will be pre-reviewed info, which means it's pretty much useless.

I find that statement very reassuring, unless with future data, it's not.

Check out http://www.collectorz.com/book/

$50, catalog, search, lists, sort, entry by isbn or barcode scanner, loan management, publish to web, etc.

I've used it for my home library (1500+ technical/scientific books, 15,000+ fiction books) for several years, and it keeps getting better with each release.

Lets see, China will announce their pie-in-the-sky space dreams years in advance, but won't show a single minute of their current space program in realtime.

The only thing China has mastered is stealing (or buying when necessary) other peoples designs and IP and then making cheap knockoffs in a attempt to show their citizens that China is a "player" in modern technology.

Where's their Saturn probe, or Martian robots, or Mercury explorer or Pluto flyby? Where's their space station?

They put a few dinky probes to the moon, and a few 1980's tech low earth orbit test ships and want the world to be impressed.

Lets see what happens if they ever actually expand the human races knowledge of space exploration, then they can brag how great they are to the world.

Until then they can steal Star Trek's slogan and say "To boldly go where numerous men have gone before".

Let me know if MIT or some other big Tech Uni cuts CS, then I'll care.

Hearing about some cost cutting measure in a state college offshoot - not so much. //go bears//

Oh noes Toto, we're not in Kansas any more.

Sure use a Sharpie - it's like writing on glass.

18 months is waaaaaaaaaay to early to introduce stuff like that.

Let the toddler be a toddler. All that baby Einstein-esque crap has been proven to be nothing but trouble for your child's NORMAL development.

Here in the State's they do the same thing with Taco Bell toilets.

And site owners and advertisers wonder why users go to such extremes with Adblock plus and NoScript to block ad's.

If the sites (or ad distributors) can't guarantee the safety of their own sites, then users have to do whatever is necessary to protect their own systems. If that means no advertising income for those sites - tough luck.

Dear 3D:

Fame here, your 15 minutes is up. Please stop cluttering our theatres with lame attempts at making things look real. If the audience want's real, they'd be out hiking, walking, boating, sailing, soaring, etc - not watching the mind numbing crap the movie companies produce.

So stop it - no really, stop it NOW.

Thanks,

F