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This probably applies more to consulting engineers to in-house engineers. I'm trying to get a better grasp of what a typical ratio is between billable rate and pay rate, and what a typical expected billable percentage is. My understanding is that a typical billable to pay ratio is 3.0 and a...

Duke starts a lot of white guys, usually.

I see where you're coming from, I usually prefer Nvidia cards myself, but right now the ATI cards are clearly better for the money. Nvidia put off the release of their Fermi core once again, so they've slipped even further behind the curve. Both of my HTPC builds have Nvidia graphics and...

That specific game, I don't know. But I'd be surprised if he had much trouble, if any. I'm loving Windows 7 and I've been able to run everything I've tried so far, including a fairly old version of Pirates! I dug up for nostalgia.

Right now ATI video cards are kicking the crap out of Nvidia for price/performance and performance in general. Take a look at the ATI 4890 cards if you want something a little older. If you want the latest and greatest, the 5850 is probably the best bang for your buck in video-card land, even...

I recently finished setting up a 2-computer MediaPortal system. The main machine is in the living room where it runs the stereo and the big TV. The client machine is in the bedroom, running our bedroom TV. The machine in the living room has 2 1TB drives in a mirror and it stores all of our...

The company I worked for started the same way. My boss had a satellite office and was told he had to either move back to the home office in Dallas or quit. He chose option B and started on his own and it's been pretty successful ever since. We just got our pay raises this morning.

My boss does some pretty questionable things with the company's money. For instance, he owns the building and rents it to the company at easily twice what the going market rate is. When he figures out quarterly profits for profit sharing (10% of profits are divided between him and the other 2...

My boss does an annoying variation of the of the on-foot e-mail follow up. He'll e-mail me with a task to do and I reply with an "OK, I'll get on it." Then I'll do the task and e-mail him the results. 2 hours later he'll walk back to my office and ask if I've completed the task. Even though...

I ordered mine from them yesterday morning and it showed up today. I used the least expensive shipping option. Very impressive. So far I've stamped 3 pieces of recycled paper and a napkin.

I do a lot of repetitive calculations sometimes, but the beauty is I'm free to do them using whatever tools I like, which means after 6 years I've got some neat tricks to do things quickly. That means higher billable rate and more time for things like visiting engineerboards.com. The really...

Sounds like a no-brainer to me. A 50% raise is pretty frickin' substantial. Plus everything else sounds better, too. If a bunch of your former co-workers are already at the new company, your current company has already made the decision to not offer higher salaries in an effort to retain...

This morning the boss man gave me a promotion and a $7k a year salary increase as a result of earning my license. I was really not expecting that. What a nice way to start the day.

What? No Casey Jones? This is an outrage!

I got the congratulatory email from the Texas board yesterday and what they say agrees. I can call myself a PE now but I can't stamp any documents until they have received an impression of my stamp and my photo.