He managed to get an offer somehow, and it probably didn't come out of the blue. That means applications and interviews. If you're putting in that effort, then you've already committed to leaving.

This is very poor advise. Many companies have a "no bargaining" policy, and even if they do, you'll still probably leave within 6 months.

The OP would also have to ask for significantly more than 7k to stay (time = money).

NOT TRUE!!!

I spent a whole weekend trying to get my wireless card working in Ubuntu. I finally gave up and went the hackint0sh route. (ironically, that was actually easier...)

In my experience, DVDs fail much more frequently than CDs. I used to back everything up on DVDs until one day I tried to use one that was about a year and a half old and it was bad. After checking others I found that I had a failure rate of about 50% of anything older than one year. This is with name-brand discs (multiple brands), both DVD-R and DVD+R.

On the other hand, I've got CDs that are well over 10 years old, and still read and write just fine....

Printing is much cheaper the first time, but a hardcover usually lasts much longer. I would imagine that these books would probably have to be printed every year.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing, though. Students would always have the most up-to-date version.

Also, who pays for the PC? The parents? If that's the case, then it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper for the state just to have them buy the book in the first place.

Blu-CD will store no more data that a regular CD. They just use a blue laser to write the master.

Fail, yourself, buddy.

I think he was referring to the fact that people are breaking the law by parking somewhere they shouldn't or for longer then they should. Hence the parking ticket in the first place.

Would you say that rats are much larger than mice?

I was going to point out that Steve Ballmer has to die eventually, but then I realized that he'll still be sweating when he's in Hell...

In Tucson, AZ, porn pays YOU!

I'm convinced that there is a higher percentage of whiners in IT than in other industries.

Most jobs that pay well are stressful, have long hours, unpaid overtime (for salaried workers), and are not fun. That's why it is called "work" and not "play". Get over it.

Maybe the difference is that you worked at IBM and got an offer at IBM.

I worked for three different companies, and didn't apply at any of them when I graduated.

I was making between $18 to $20 per hour about 8 years ago. To be honest, though, the job experience that I got meant NOTHING when it came time for me to get a full-time job No employer took my internships seriously (I had 4 of them)

What it did do is let me graduate with no student loans. I say take whatever you can get...