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Comment: Re:Grumpy old man... (Score 0) 110

by MaximvsG (#31457676) Attached to: Scientists Need Volunteers To Look At the Sun
haha funny skit. Here's the full paragraph:

Life was a carnival! We entertained ourselves! We didn't need moooovin' pitchurrrres. In my day, there was only one show in town -- it was called "Stare at the sun!" ... That's right! You'd sit in the middle of an open field and stare up at the sun till your eyeballs burst into flames! And you thought, "Oh, no! Maybe I shouldn't've stared directly into the burning sun with my eyes wide open." But it was too late! Your head was on fire and people were roastin' chickens over it. ... And that's the way it was and we liked it!

Comment: Re:Wow (Score 0) 178

by MaximvsG (#31456886) Attached to: NY To Replace IT Vendors With State Workers
Really depends on the type of contract work they are doing. Working for a company like CSC who manages contract and pays employee benefits, a W-2 contractor that works for what is basically a head-hunting company that provide no benefits or a 1099 contractor (essentially self-employed.) Having done all three I can say a skilled IT worker (W2 or 1099) in NYC should be getting no less than $60/hr. I realize the market has slowed down considerably since the heydays of the late 90's, but rates have rebounded the last few years. We had something similar happen at T Rowe Price where all the contractors were let go to save money. Most were charging over $100/hr.

Comment: SGI was once a leading edge company (Score 0) 107

by MaximvsG (#27927155) Attached to: SGI Lives On, In Name At Least
I'm thinking back to 1993-1994 when SGI had killer workstations that had some nifty innovative features with the best GUI for Unix workstations. Hell, the best GUI for all workstations at the time. We used to manage a few hundred of them along with Suns and Alphas. It's funny looking back that Sun survived and SGI and Alpha didn't. Alpha and SGI were like the BMWs and Mercedes of the workstations and servers, where Sun was like a used Ford. But SGI went to their WNT strategy and took a nosedive. Hard to compete with 2k workstations (at the time) with ones that cost over 10k.

Comment: Re:How will the decide? (Score 0) 911

by MaximvsG (#26973549) Attached to: EU Says MS Must Offer Other Browsers; Now What?
That's the main issue I have with this as well. Who determines which browsers will be included? I'm sure someone will feel left out. To download other browsers you'll need a browser to begin with so the "no browser" option is out. Not a Microsoft fan here but think this is way over the top.

if (argc > 1 && strcmp(argv[1], "-advice") == 0) { printf("Don't Panic!\n"); exit(42); } (Arnold Robbins in the LJ of February '95, describing RCS)

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