Seriously, the classes were how to type. That's it. And yes, it's amazing how accurate your results can be when you know enough to modify the app in the first place. Sector editing assembly on an Apple ||++

Ahhhh, never ending meetings where things don't get solved quickly, especially if priorities aren't clear.

If priorities aren't clear, the manner of communications is going to be inefficient regardless.

Personally, I'll take a well drafted email over any live-person-multiple-people meeting any day. The emails in my experience tend to be well laid out and detailed. Meetings, people show up unprepared and empty-handed. Then don't take well enough notes. Then are preoccupied with other things going on (for that day) and ... you get an hour or two wasted with people unable to discuss IT department topics that are technically inclined but there is no technical information on the table.

Atleast with an email I can run through it over and over and let my brain digest it, and then come back and reply with complete thoughts to it. I have the ability to pull up relevant documentation, facts, prior projects, prior issue-tracker-issues, etc. I find in meetings, having the time to digest new information, just dropped on you there, with others expecting an answer _there_.... that's not fun.

It could also very well be that meetings such as the ones I'm thinking about were not run well by management, pre-prep wasn't enforced and no guideance for the meeting, nor future meetings, was provided.

I'm not saying all meetings are bad, but from my experience, most are.

After Apple bought NeXT, it's said they kept the Intel version developed behind closed doors for all those years.

If Jobs were a smart man, and I think he is, when they realized they'd block flash on the to-be iOS platform (which was far more ahead of when they announced it), they started work on a graphics app to replace Photoshop. "Just incase" they'd need it.

Not only that, but if the city has any health/life insurance on those fire fighters, coverage may specifically only cover those firefighters on site of those houses that have pre-paid.

If that were the case, I would certainly not expect any of the fire fighters to touch that house, at all. If one of them were to be injured, or worse killed, who's looking after the fire fighter's family afterward?

Certainly, imho, not the guy who chose to save the $75. (There was another discussion somewhere I saw yesterday that I can't find a link to) that said the guy had had received letters, phone calls, and had chosen to not pay it at the time of the call, and someone had googled the guy and they had a farm and were seemingly doing quite well enough to shell out $75.

Sad story, regardless.

And I thought Ohio was the only state that had such fucked up sales tax laws. In Ohio, too, you cannot plainly use a zip code to determine sales tax, because the county lines to not abide by them. So you have to factor address, city, county and zip code.

You can find some information from the state of ohio in pdf's and csv's to try and help you sort through it. However, the same information can change depending on the election cycle ( https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthefinder.tax.ohio.gov%2FStreamlineSalesTaxWeb%2F ).

While a prior poster mentioned that surely Amazon is full of intelligent people who can figure all this out, I do not believe they should have to. I cannot imagine having to put together a system that deals with each and every states archaic tax laws that change at any given time. What a pain in the ass that'd be. And how costly that would be to implement, ugh.

One business I'm with uses Open Fire. Another uses OSX Server on an XServe w/ it's built-in Jabber server (attached to MS-AD for user accounts).

Both work extremely well. Throw in Pidgin, iChat or Adium and it's all good.

What a load of crap you just spouted.

The last two developers we've hired: 1 perl developer (mod_perl) happened to be in his 40's. The other, a .Net developer, too, happened to be in his 40's.

And quite honestly, I don't recall either's educational background. But I can tell you were each has worked, what they di, what their references said about them, and theirs skillsets. I'd also venture to say, IMHO, they were hired for capacity and willingness to learn. Not everyone knows everything. But that you *can* and *want to* learn what you need to learn is key.

Besides, if you are paying someone proper $$, if they are older, generally they are more stable then a young pup who's dating and then gets married and needs to relocate because the spouse got a job somewhere else and they can easily do so without kids. The older hires tend to be married with kids, and they're stuck in town. Especially if they're gearing up trying to save for kids that'll be in college in a few years. Less movement and more stability++.

I sincerely hope you are.

However, most IT people I know are getting bent over with the extra work and projects and BS "to keep the higher ups happy so we don't get let go." That leaves very little time for anything other then work, sleep rinse and repeat.

It's amazing once the job market is announced to have slowed down how management will turn up the screws on the non-hourly.