Baconbutty wrote: The effect of a well placed "thank you" or "well done" to the person who made that difference cannot be underestimated. True, but the employee constantly yearning this acknowledgement and comparing himself with other employees in terms of this acknowledgement is digging himself deeper and deeper into a hole of insecurities! If you feel your being ignored, ignore it. Managers often tend to lack the required social skills and also tend to treat people differently, they're only human.

True. Whilst responding to these threads, I have also sent an email to CyberCrime Cell, Chennai regarding the BuzzyCode website which is violating intellectual property infringments they are indulging in. Let me keep this thread updated over the responses I recieve from them. Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips

I've done a few courses with OU. It's excellent, but be warned it can be a lot of hard work, especially if you're trying to hold down a job at the same time. "It was the day before today.... I remember it like it was yesterday." -Moleman

As someone who has hired / fired and given raises to employees, there is only one thing that is important: The boss only cares about what value you bring to them and their company, NEVER EVER go into a discussion about salary by telling the boss you NEED more money. Saying you want a raise because you need it says nothing to the boss, you might as well be speaking a foriegn language. It also makes you seem weak and puts you in a "begging" position automatically. What you always do is approach it from a point of view of what value you bring to the company. What I would do is first of all find out what kind of salary you could be making if you started a new job at your current level of knowledge and value so you know how much you *deserve* to be making. Get as much info on that as you can for your area. Also find out how likely it would be that you could get another job if you left the one you're at now. Remember that you want to be in a position of power in any negotiation. I don't mean that you should act arrogant and self important, it's important to project humility and calm assertiveness in any negotiation. You will feel calmly assertive because you are armed with the knowledge of exactly what you should be making before you even go in. Then, and only then go in, tell the boss that you would like a higher salary because you're worth more to the company than you were when you first started and be prepared to show exactly what you're worth with proof if required. Keep it light and pleasant and if they say no outright then you already know if you can look for another job or not so there is no pressure in the conversation. But key of all remember that the boss, no matter how friendly they may seem are really only interested in the bottom line of what you bring to the company and how much it would cost to replace you, they are not going to base their decision on anything but cold hard logic, trying an emotional argument with them is the worst possible thing you can do. I've personally felt like firing people who came to me asking for a raise because they said "I need it" and had no logic to back up their request. I don't want that sort of person working for me unless I'm running a drama studio. :) "I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon

Eva! Merhba. Well only slightly actually (my grand-father is Maltese) :). I spent most of last year in Malta - great experience! I miss the bread & Kinnie :( Ciao "For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: There is a proverb right "An idle brain is devil's workshop". There is this Dilbert cartoon, where Alice during a bored meeting starts to imagine their coworkers naked - until she reaches Wally... Failure is not an option - it's built right in.

I totally agree.

C0d3_P03t wrote: What skills or knowledge do u require to make good animation? The others answered good enough. I would stress balance in knowledge. A little knowledge of computer pipelining is not necessary, but it will save you time in the long-run by optimized designing. Art is always handy in any art related career. A keen eye for movement and imitation of movement in design is important when you reach realistic modelling. There is not a day that goes by when I don't walk outside and look up and the sky and start taking apart the lighting model and cloud formation/distribution/density models. Yeah, geekish. But I have been in the real-world-modelling too long, if you have to immitate life for a career, then recognizing HOW to immitate life is absolutely important. As a hobby, you can get as close to real as you want, or as surrealistic as you want without pressures from the outside. Yet again, any knowledge of graphics pipelining speeds up your work, recognition of real-world immitation algorithms allows you also to recognize algorithms for surrealistic ideas too, and art, as I said, is always good in an art related subject. Good luck! _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

Blah blah blah blah blah... You post a message here, and you should expect satire, wit, sarcasm, insults, and ridicule. I'm one of the few people here that tries to include all of those aspects in every one of my messages. It's more efficient that way. Pinky_Malta wrote: And if my code is crappy it wouldnt be uploaded on major systems online. I'm impressed. MAJOR SYSTEMS ONLINE! MY GOD! Had I known, I would have been content to cower in the corner like the noob I obviously am! I'd be real careful if I were you. I've seen "major systems online" that contained enough rubbish code to fill a football stadium. Grow a bone, dude. "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 ----- "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

Luke Agius wrote: is a project managment system vital in a software company now a days, i every resource needs to be managed and so needs a management system. -prakash

Solved.... Downloaded a file called wamp, it installs everything needed in just 2 mins and everything works fine, if any one wants to try it its on www.wampserver.com Regards, Luke

Ooops, pardon me. I meant to give you a 5, but my trembling finger clicked the 1 before I could stop it. Please ignore the 1, your wit was quite enjoyable. QRZ? de WAØTTN

May the best win. That is, the ABs :-D - Not a substitute for human interaction - Fold with us! ¤ flickr

Programmaticly i meant, If not programaticly i wouldnt have posted it on the C# forum innit? Regards, Luke

I wouldn't have thought you were buying a landy for fuel efficiency... The ability to go up Snowdon or Ben Nevis in comfort, but not fuel efficiency... :D

Go for it. I am a bit older than you (28) and moved from Australia to Holland for 6 months. I had a blast but also missed my family etc. If you can get home for a visit every few weeks then you have the best of both worlds. Whats the worst that can happen? If you dont like the job, you dont like living in England, you find that your not earning enough to live the way you want, you miss home etc etc then just resign and get on a plane.

Looks like I'm the odd ball here at CP. I only listen to Country Music… :) Toby Keith, Hank Williams JR, Waylon Jennings, The list goes on… ------------------------------- DEBUGGING : Removing the needles from the haystack.

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First 'computer' I ever programmed: A Texas Instruments TI-59 programmable calculator. Even though it's called a calculator, I included it, since it taught me one of the fundamentals of programming: Keep a backup. The TI-59 could save programs on magnetic cards. I spent an entire day working on a program once, and failed to keep my backup up to date. The battery died just before I was ready to save it. First computer I ever purchased myself: The TRS-80 Model 100[^], a predecessor to the modern laptop. I eventually bought expansion RAM to fill mine out to a whopping 32K. I also bought an external floppy drive for it (it passed data to/from the computer via a 19.2K serial interface). One of the coolest things about the Model 100 was that it supposedly contains some of the last published code ever written by Bill Gates. There's an apocryphal story going around that, less than a week before the Model 100 was released to manufacturing, Bill was trying one out. Supposedly he hated the text editor so much he took the thing home and wrote a new editor for it. The editor is remarkably capable for being so small. Software Zen: delete this;

Thanks mate I'll check it out Always trust your techno lust