I suppose this goes without saying but certs are only as good as the person behind them.
A few years ago I helped a guy pass his MSCE exam. The funny thing was this guy knew zip about computers before (and mostly after). He had been a carpet installer in his previous life. Anyway he passed his exam and was then hired as a sysadmin for a small town municipality for about 50 grand. I suppose OJT is the best kind of training anyway.
Certs have their uses, but it's no replacement for real knowledge. Back when I was still repairing computers for a living, I got my A+ cert because I thought it would help my marketing. Big shock. The test was so easy I didn't believe it when it ended. My respect for certs in general plummeted after that.
It is possible for some people to screw it up however. One of my employers sent an employee to a 2 week $2500 A+ cert course (note, they never reimbursed me for the cost of MY test); She still failed. LoL! Maybe that's karma in some way. I guess that is the real purpose of the certs, to separate the genuine idiots from the merely lazy.
Powdered Aluminum Hydride? LoL! That would make a nifty fuel air bomb! With stuff like that running around, Osama and Friends wouldn't need to hijack a bunch of airliners, they could just hijack any tanker truck and take out a few city blocks. Dope it with some easily obtained radioisotope (i.e. Cesium 131 used in cancer treatments) and you have, for all intents and purposes, a small nuclear bomb.
Sorry, but replacing gasoline with hydrogen isn't going to be that easy, if indeed it ever is plausible. Gasoline is a fuel at STP, hydrogen isn't. The only hydrogen in our environment is bound to other chemicals, which means we have to put energy into the system to liberate it and store it. Right now, that is an energy sink, not a source.
Ken
"In other news, Dell 2.0 announced the launch of their 100% certified organic, Free Range Computers. Offering users a healthier alternative to the highly processed artificial computers of the past."
The problem is that academia has become so politicized in general. Everyone assumes that anyone who disagrees with them has some sort of sinister agenda or disreputable motive. That is what drives the hostility, and most of it comes from the left. Sure GW may have told Hansen (GSFC) to shut the hell up (which he didn't do), but that pales in comparison to the Red Guards at various universities running around and acting like thugs with the tacit approval of the Admin. We are truly decending into another dark age I fear.
The government doesn't care. They want control, they will get control. The Constitution only matters if the people in power respect it and abide by it. What has happened is that the PTB realized that there would be absolutely no consequences for ignoring the Constitution, and so now they do as it pleases them.
Don't like it? Write your congresscritter, write a letter to the editor, run for office, or stand in front of the Capital building with a sandwich board that reads, "Revolution at 8pm Friday, be there or be square!" It's all the same.
I think people are missing the point with the whole diaper thing. It's the reason she was originally charged with attempted murder, which I think was entirely justified.
She could have taken a plane to Orlando just like Capt. Shipman did, so why didn't she? The fact is, she could have flown herself in her NASA issued T-38 jet, so why didn't she? She knew the plans of Shipman for a long time. She was in fact stalking Shipman for weeks, and she could have been waiting in Orlando long before Shipman got there. So why did she rush off wearing a diaper so that she could get there just in time to meet Shipman at the airport (remember, Nowack knew where Shipman lived)?
What people are missing here is that Nowack wanted plausible deniability. If She had taken a plane, or flown herself, it would have left a paper trail. Instead she chose to drive the 900 mile distance, pay for everthing in cash and wear a disguise so that she would not be recognized.
Nowak had a Mapquest map that showed the path from Houston to Orlando. But Nowak didn't need to know how to get there, she has been back and forth many times, and besides she used the interstate. What she needed from Mapquest was the TIME. The estimated times used by Mapquest and others are based on average travel times for the average person.
Nowak no doubt thought that if she could wear a diaper, she could beat those times. Thus, if she were ever questioned after the fact, she could plausibly claim that she wouldn't have had the time to make the trip. No doubt she would have put in a conspicuous appearance somewhere after the fact in order to give herself an alibi. This demonstrates that she was already thinking ahead to having to defend herself.
The only way this makes sense is if she planned on murdering Shipman. P
The problem with all these small form factor devices is the human. Humans have to interact with these things. We have to put information in, and get information out. Until there is an efficient way to do those things without the qwerty keyboard and monitors then the practical utility of these devices will be limited to niche applications if anything.
Seems like a piss poor way to run a circus.
Still, in the patriotic spirit of our times I took out some date changing code I wrote years ago when I was first learning C and sent it to NASA. Never let it be said that in times of national need that I did nothing.
Ken
The NK and their Chinese patrons love to jerk our chain. China loves to use NK as a proxy in what they see as their conflict with the West, and they will continue to do so as long as it serves their purposes.
Ken
The ultimate solution, to quote Bullworth, is to fuck each other until we're all the same color.
That's pretty stupid. Go ahead and take your "wisdom" from a stupid box office bomb, knock yourself out. I would rather preserve the civilization that gave us everything you take for granted.
Ken
If all you need to do is pop in a faster CPU and swap out a busted fan, with existing technology that's built and debugged, why not upgrade the 386? Especially since buying a new computer (in this stupid analogy anyway) will take at least a decade or more before it's built, debugged, and working. And besides, the current Hubble successor (JWST) is near IR and loses the visible. And ground-based telescopes don't provide the same quality of spectra that space-based telescopes can, nor can they provide as quiet long-time (many-orbit) acquisitions.
Hey if a 386 board or two is all they need, I'll be glad to give them one of mine. I think I still have a Biostar mb with an early K6 processor still in it somewhere.
Seriously,
Just think how many Hubble Space Telecopes we could have for the money we are pissing away in Iraq. The same idiots who don't blink at pissing away 300 billion in a grand effort to alienate all humanity from us, can't seem to find a few bucks here or there for a telescope or robotic probe or two.
As Jerry Pournelle has pointed out, we could have built a whole fleet of orbital solar power stations for the cost of the Iraq fiasco. (yah I understand some of the problems with that. Still, it would have been better than wasting it on this stupid war).
"We... hope to preserve and defend our heritage, culture, customs, traditions, morals, and values, as well as our blood itself, against hostile alien elements that are destructive to who we are and we as a race hold dear."
That was written by a white man. Had it been written by an Australian aborigine, it would be a civil rights web site.
Exactly.
These self righteous little punks, running around on their little crusades, are sick in the head. They are the result of a system of moral and intellectual terror that tells them they are wicked, their race is wicked and all their ancestors are wicked. The only they can (somewhat) expiate the original sin of being white of is by joining in the anti-white crusade.
The irony here is that the only people stupid enough to believe in all the We-Are-The-World, Multicultural dogma are silly white liberals. The Chinese, the Koreans, the Japanese, the Indians (real ones, not ours) and most other groups in the world have a healthy self regard. Only whites are denied this, and by other whites at that.
This insane self hatred has a close parallel. Young girls, driven by psychological trauma, anxiety and insecurity will engage in self mutilation (some boys do it as well, but to a lesser extent). I would maintain that this "Deliberate Self-Harm Syndrome" as it is called, is manifested as well in the pathological self hatred evinced by these people. Their desire to "root out hatred" (whatever that is) is nothing more than an attempt to salve the psychological torment of growing up intimidated, humiliated, and terrorized by teachers and a culture that constantly told them they were evil for being white.
This is nothing more than wish fulfillment for these people. The dirty little secret of the "evironmentalism" crowd is that they really HATE humanity. Really. It's just a bunch of spoiled brats (of all ages) who simply don't like sharing the Earth with the rest of us. They wont admit this of course, but my experience with them has been that this is so. They sit around and jerk off to stories like this.
Ken
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A few years ago I helped a guy pass his MSCE exam. The funny thing was this guy knew zip about computers before (and mostly after). He had been a carpet installer in his previous life. Anyway he passed his exam and was then hired as a sysadmin for a small town municipality for about 50 grand. I suppose OJT is the best kind of training anyway.
Certs have their uses, but it's no replacement for real knowledge. Back when I was still repairing computers for a living, I got my A+ cert because I thought it would help my marketing. Big shock. The test was so easy I didn't believe it when it ended. My respect for certs in general plummeted after that.
It is possible for some people to screw it up however. One of my employers sent an employee to a 2 week $2500 A+ cert course (note, they never reimbursed me for the cost of MY test); She still failed. LoL! Maybe that's karma in some way. I guess that is the real purpose of the certs, to separate the genuine idiots from the merely lazy.
-Ken
Sorry, but replacing gasoline with hydrogen isn't going to be that easy, if indeed it ever is plausible. Gasoline is a fuel at STP, hydrogen isn't. The only hydrogen in our environment is bound to other chemicals, which means we have to put energy into the system to liberate it and store it. Right now, that is an energy sink, not a source. Ken
"Everytime you share a file, God kills a kitten."
"In other news, Dell 2.0 announced the launch of their 100% certified organic, Free Range Computers. Offering users a healthier alternative to the highly processed artificial computers of the past."
Ken
Don't like it? Write your congresscritter, write a letter to the editor, run for office, or stand in front of the Capital building with a sandwich board that reads, "Revolution at 8pm Friday, be there or be square!" It's all the same.
America The Free, it was fun while it lasted.
ken
No! Say it aint so! What's the world coming to when the FBI abuses it's power! Surely a sign of the apocalypse! [/heavy sarcasm]
I think people are missing the point with the whole diaper thing. It's the reason she was originally charged with attempted murder, which I think was entirely justified.
She could have taken a plane to Orlando just like Capt. Shipman did, so why didn't she? The fact is, she could have flown herself in her NASA issued T-38 jet, so why didn't she? She knew the plans of Shipman for a long time. She was in fact stalking Shipman for weeks, and she could have been waiting in Orlando long before Shipman got there. So why did she rush off wearing a diaper so that she could get there just in time to meet Shipman at the airport (remember, Nowack knew where Shipman lived)?
What people are missing here is that Nowack wanted plausible deniability. If She had taken a plane, or flown herself, it would have left a paper trail. Instead she chose to drive the 900 mile distance, pay for everthing in cash and wear a disguise so that she would not be recognized.
Nowak had a Mapquest map that showed the path from Houston to Orlando. But Nowak didn't need to know how to get there, she has been back and forth many times, and besides she used the interstate. What she needed from Mapquest was the TIME. The estimated times used by Mapquest and others are based on average travel times for the average person.
Nowak no doubt thought that if she could wear a diaper, she could beat those times. Thus, if she were ever questioned after the fact, she could plausibly claim that she wouldn't have had the time to make the trip. No doubt she would have put in a conspicuous appearance somewhere after the fact in order to give herself an alibi. This demonstrates that she was already thinking ahead to having to defend herself.
The only way this makes sense is if she planned on murdering Shipman. P
Ken
The problem with all these small form factor devices is the human. Humans have to interact with these things. We have to put information in, and get information out. Until there is an efficient way to do those things without the qwerty keyboard and monitors then the practical utility of these devices will be limited to niche applications if anything.
Seems like a piss poor way to run a circus.
Still, in the patriotic spirit of our times I took out some date changing code I wrote years ago when I was first learning C and sent it to NASA. Never let it be said that in times of national need that I did nothing.
Ken
Yah I agree.
The NK and their Chinese patrons love to jerk our chain. China loves to use NK as a proxy in what they see as their conflict with the West, and they will continue to do so as long as it serves their purposes. KenHey if a 386 board or two is all they need, I'll be glad to give them one of mine. I think I still have a Biostar mb with an early K6 processor still in it somewhere.
Seriously,
Just think how many Hubble Space Telecopes we could have for the money we are pissing away in Iraq. The same idiots who don't blink at pissing away 300 billion in a grand effort to alienate all humanity from us, can't seem to find a few bucks here or there for a telescope or robotic probe or two.
As Jerry Pournelle has pointed out, we could have built a whole fleet of orbital solar power stations for the cost of the Iraq fiasco. (yah I understand some of the problems with that. Still, it would have been better than wasting it on this stupid war).
These self righteous little punks, running around on their little crusades, are sick in the head. They are the result of a system of moral and intellectual terror that tells them they are wicked, their race is wicked and all their ancestors are wicked. The only they can (somewhat) expiate the original sin of being white of is by joining in the anti-white crusade.
The irony here is that the only people stupid enough to believe in all the We-Are-The-World, Multicultural dogma are silly white liberals. The Chinese, the Koreans, the Japanese, the Indians (real ones, not ours) and most other groups in the world have a healthy self regard. Only whites are denied this, and by other whites at that.
This insane self hatred has a close parallel. Young girls, driven by psychological trauma, anxiety and insecurity will engage in self mutilation (some boys do it as well, but to a lesser extent). I would maintain that this "Deliberate Self-Harm Syndrome" as it is called, is manifested as well in the pathological self hatred evinced by these people. Their desire to "root out hatred" (whatever that is) is nothing more than an attempt to salve the psychological torment of growing up intimidated, humiliated, and terrorized by teachers and a culture that constantly told them they were evil for being white.
-Ken
This is nothing more than wish fulfillment for these people. The dirty little secret of the "evironmentalism" crowd is that they really HATE humanity. Really. It's just a bunch of spoiled brats (of all ages) who simply don't like sharing the Earth with the rest of us. They wont admit this of course, but my experience with them has been that this is so. They sit around and jerk off to stories like this. Ken