Not just high salary US locations... the locations with the highest cost of living in the country. Those high salaries aren't even enough for many, if not most, employees in those locations to even live near their jobs; insane commutes are the norm. (The money isn't everything.)
Gotta love the optional technologies field that has a list of several dozen options that you can view only one at a time. (Must have been a Windows developer; they sure love foisting a crappy interface like that on users.)
I think we'd be better off funding research to deal with the overabundance of carbon dioxide. But let's do everything we can to avoid weaning our society off the internal combustion engine. Surely wouldn't want to leave that in the dustbin where it belongs would we?
It was cloudy. One of my daughters and I made a big cardboard pinhole camera viewing box. Tested it early in the morning and it worked great. We watched the clock and went outside to view the beginning of the eclipse only to find that clouds were rolling in and if we were able to glimpse the sun's disc, it was greatly dimmed by the increasing haze and clouds. By the time the maximum eclipse in our area--about 85%--should have been visible, the cloud cover had darkened the sky more than the eclipse ever would have.
Most of the certifications that have been suggested to me over the years have been part of a racket. 1.) Pay $$$ to take the course and get the certification. 2.) If you lucky, your employer gives you a token raise because you're magically more valuable. The raise pays for the cost of obtaining the certification over a three year period. 3.) Certification is only good for three years. Return to step 1. Nice treadmill this cottage industry has created.
If step 2 never happens--and lately that is more than likely going to be the case--then you just out the $$$ and for what?
Was "open source certification" something that the pollsters brought up? If so, the whole report is questionable. If it was something that the people who participated in the poll, that may make a lot of folks want to know who all these people were and what companies they work for. They may wish to cross them off the list of companies they'd like to work for.
Yep. I would hazard a guess that 80%-90% of the emails I receive from recruiters for a senior Linux-related position list requirements that indicate that Linux is really only a very minor part of the role. The rest of the job requirements show that they're looking to fill at least three wildly different roles. Usually they want a DBA, Cisco expert, Wintel admin, and a level 3 Linux/UNIX admin with Java, C++, and Powershell experience preferred.
If they are really sharp (remember that you could have a sharp hiring manager stuck behind a not-so-sharp HR department), then they will see you for what they are worth and they are likely to also flat out reject anybody who claims to have the impossible qualification.
Uh... that's highly doubtful. Either the ATS software has filtered you out based on the buzzwords in your resume--or because you didn't include certain oh-so-important buzzwords--or the lazy HR droid never even passed along your resume to that sharp hiring manager because s/he was asked to forward 20 resumes and you were 21st in the list. I've heard stories about HR people who deliberately set the thresholds on the ATS extremely high--essentially you're booted if you aren't meeting 100% of the job ad's requirements--so that they don't have so many resumes to go through. In that case, it would pay to lie just so you are considered for, at least, a phone screen.
Even if you do get in touch with an actual hiring manager and s/he thinks you're a good candidate, they are often required to refer you to the online application process and now you're back to dealing with Taleo or some other piece of junk ATS that will label you as unfit for employment. Now you're back to, well, see above.
Don't worry, though. The company's HR people will keep your UNIX/Linux-system administrator-heavy resume on file so they can forward you notices about future Java and Visual Basic development job openings that you're a perfect match for. Company's that have allowed HR to so completely insinuate themselves between hiring managers and job applicants pretty much deserve to go under.
Now that you've decided that 10Mbps is going to be considered a "high-speed" internet connection, the ISPs are able to dumb down all the available content to fall within that definition. 4K video over the 'net? Who cares. Doesn't work worth spit on our [ahem] "new" high-speed connections so you won't want it. Who cares if the US falls even further behind the rest of the world in technology. As long as our ISPs don't have to upgrade their equipment, more profits can go to the shareholders. Investment in infrastructure is for suckers anyway, eh? Kudos! You're Making America Great Again!
...the ability to do screenshots because there's never been a way to do that before. I can't tell ya how many times I've wanted to share what my browser window looks like with the rest of the internet. (Must be a feature intended for Windows users.) How about a feature that doesn't let one page's bit of crappy Javascript cause the entire browser to fall over?
...consists of turning it into television. Everybody (ISPs, especially) seems to want to do this now and it's pretty pathetic that these innovators can't think up something more original. But... it sort of goes hand in hand with the kind of innovative programming one finds on television (or coming out of Hollywood).
Maybe Ursula Le Guin was on to something:
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
I think the point is that major ISPs who own copper (or fiber) and can offer much higher speeds might have an advantage over those--like Verizon--who only provide wireless. I thought Pai was a former Verizon lobbyist. This rule would be a boon to his former employer. Or, given the revolving door for lobbyists in DC, probable future re-employer.
And it must have some significant value. A home in our neighborhood was for sale--owners moved out of state for another job--and the vacant home was broken into. Every scrap of copper was removed: wiring, water pipes, you name it. Removing all that seemed like an awful lot of work to me unless scrap copper is fetching some righteous bucks.
We bought an antenna at Radio Shack and a line amp, installed them in the attic, and used the coax to avoid paying AT&TCast whatever they're charging a month. Sure, RS isn't around any more but a local hardware store or electronics supply house will have these items. We can pick up more OTA signals than we have the time to watch. Any so-called `gotta-see' shows we can get at the library or video store (yeah, they're still around).
I remember hearing those sort of warnings back in the days of curtain shutters in SLRs. Many, like the one in my FTb, were made out of rubberized fabric (lighter than metal and capable of faster shutter speeds) and pointing it at the sun for even brief periods without the lens cap on could burn nice little holes in the curtain.
As a kid, I had a Gilbert reflector telescope with a solar viewing attachment that replaced the eyepiece, It was a conical assembly that had a thin sheet of white plastic over the end that the mirrors would projected the sun onto. You could safely see sunspots and, once, a partial eclipse. Sort of wish I still had it.
... with a large cardboard box, a piece of white paper taped on the inside, and a sheet of aluminum foil taped over a hole across from the paper with a tiny hole poked in it. Essentially, a pinhole camera. There's really no need to be looking directly at the sun. Through anything. Dear $DIETY, I can't think of any reason to trust something bought on Amazon to use for viewing the sun. I'm expecting, though, to hear about numerous people with destroyed retinas on the news the day after the eclipse.
I headed up the technical services department at a company where that was, pretty much, the attitude of the other departments. I jokingly asked once whether they thought I/we could build/MacGiver a phaser out of old office supplies found behind the filing cabinets and the answer came back "Yes".
Is Alexa really that necessary given that so many people are never--never--without their smart phone that they could use to do the majority of things that Alexa does? Ditto for Apple's product and Samsung's (if they can ever work out the bugs).
It may pay more than that desk job but it's more likely than not going to be a long-term job. That's a tough situation for anyone with a family; you'll be leaving the family behind to work on another short-term welding job. Then another and another. Not everyone can take that for long.
As for everyone wanting to go to college... I know one car rental company that--at least at one time--wanted their employees to have a college education just to stand behind the counter and help customers fill out rental forms. That's the kind of job that high school kids used to do in a work-study programs. It used to be called "Diversified or Office Occupations" when I was in HS and students got jobs in local businesses working as office clerks, cashiers, etc. At least back then, it was recognized that not all jobs required, nor were all students cut out for or even looking to obtain, a college degree. Now companies seem to be more than happy to force high school graduates to go through the process of racking up a huge college loan debt for the privilege of working for slave wages while they pay their loans off.
The wife and I lived in SE OH--maybe a half hour drive to WV--for around ten years back in the '80s. I encountered people working at some of the local businesses who were illiterate. When my wife was working at a bank there were customers (miners) who couldn't write their own name; they made a "mark" that was witnessed and initialed by their friend. Those folks are going to have the worst time of all moving to a new vocation.
We used to have the motd file updated hourly with stats about availability, scheduled maintenance, disks that users should do some personal cleanup on, and other stuff that users were calling admins about and nobody paid much attention to the information. The more astute users quickly learned that that annoying information could be eliminated from their session by putting 'clear' in their profile.
Just like what happens with motd text, users will quickly learn where the advertisements will appear on their monitors and learn to not pay attention to those areas. The end result is that the ads are ignored. Well, unless you make them animated and/or play audio. Then users don't ignore them but you really tick them off and they're about as popular as a call from a telemarketer during dinner. Then you should expect to catch some hell.
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Not just high salary US locations... the locations with the highest cost of living in the country. Those high salaries aren't even enough for many, if not most, employees in those locations to even live near their jobs; insane commutes are the norm. (The money isn't everything.)
Gotta love the optional technologies field that has a list of several dozen options that you can view only one at a time. (Must have been a Windows developer; they sure love foisting a crappy interface like that on users.)
Almost worthless tool, IMHO.
[cough]petroleum company[cough]
I think we'd be better off funding research to deal with the overabundance of carbon dioxide. But let's do everything we can to avoid weaning our society off the internal combustion engine. Surely wouldn't want to leave that in the dustbin where it belongs would we?
It was cloudy. One of my daughters and I made a big cardboard pinhole camera viewing box. Tested it early in the morning and it worked great. We watched the clock and went outside to view the beginning of the eclipse only to find that clouds were rolling in and if we were able to glimpse the sun's disc, it was greatly dimmed by the increasing haze and clouds. By the time the maximum eclipse in our area--about 85%--should have been visible, the cloud cover had darkened the sky more than the eclipse ever would have.
It reminds me of the never-ending claims that "Windows <fill-in-the-version> is the most secure Windows ever".
Most of the certifications that have been suggested to me over the years have been part of a racket. 1.) Pay $$$ to take the course and get the certification. 2.) If you lucky, your employer gives you a token raise because you're magically more valuable. The raise pays for the cost of obtaining the certification over a three year period. 3.) Certification is only good for three years. Return to step 1. Nice treadmill this cottage industry has created.
If step 2 never happens--and lately that is more than likely going to be the case--then you just out the $$$ and for what?
Was "open source certification" something that the pollsters brought up? If so, the whole report is questionable. If it was something that the people who participated in the poll, that may make a lot of folks want to know who all these people were and what companies they work for. They may wish to cross them off the list of companies they'd like to work for.
Yep. I would hazard a guess that 80%-90% of the emails I receive from recruiters for a senior Linux-related position list requirements that indicate that Linux is really only a very minor part of the role. The rest of the job requirements show that they're looking to fill at least three wildly different roles. Usually they want a DBA, Cisco expert, Wintel admin, and a level 3 Linux/UNIX admin with Java, C++, and Powershell experience preferred.
Uh... that's highly doubtful. Either the ATS software has filtered you out based on the buzzwords in your resume--or because you didn't include certain oh-so-important buzzwords--or the lazy HR droid never even passed along your resume to that sharp hiring manager because s/he was asked to forward 20 resumes and you were 21st in the list. I've heard stories about HR people who deliberately set the thresholds on the ATS extremely high--essentially you're booted if you aren't meeting 100% of the job ad's requirements--so that they don't have so many resumes to go through. In that case, it would pay to lie just so you are considered for, at least, a phone screen.
Even if you do get in touch with an actual hiring manager and s/he thinks you're a good candidate, they are often required to refer you to the online application process and now you're back to dealing with Taleo or some other piece of junk ATS that will label you as unfit for employment. Now you're back to, well, see above.
Don't worry, though. The company's HR people will keep your UNIX/Linux-system administrator-heavy resume on file so they can forward you notices about future Java and Visual Basic development job openings that you're a perfect match for. Company's that have allowed HR to so completely insinuate themselves between hiring managers and job applicants pretty much deserve to go under.
Now that you've decided that 10Mbps is going to be considered a "high-speed" internet connection, the ISPs are able to dumb down all the available content to fall within that definition. 4K video over the 'net? Who cares. Doesn't work worth spit on our [ahem] "new" high-speed connections so you won't want it. Who cares if the US falls even further behind the rest of the world in technology. As long as our ISPs don't have to upgrade their equipment, more profits can go to the shareholders. Investment in infrastructure is for suckers anyway, eh? Kudos! You're Making America Great Again!
...the ability to do screenshots because there's never been a way to do that before. I can't tell ya how many times I've wanted to share what my browser window looks like with the rest of the internet. (Must be a feature intended for Windows users.) How about a feature that doesn't let one page's bit of crappy Javascript cause the entire browser to fall over?
Screenshots? Seriously?
...consists of turning it into television. Everybody (ISPs, especially) seems to want to do this now and it's pretty pathetic that these innovators can't think up something more original. But... it sort of goes hand in hand with the kind of innovative programming one finds on television (or coming out of Hollywood).
Maybe Ursula Le Guin was on to something:
I think the point is that major ISPs who own copper (or fiber) and can offer much higher speeds might have an advantage over those--like Verizon--who only provide wireless. I thought Pai was a former Verizon lobbyist. This rule would be a boon to his former employer. Or, given the revolving door for lobbyists in DC, probable future re-employer.
And it must have some significant value. A home in our neighborhood was for sale--owners moved out of state for another job--and the vacant home was broken into. Every scrap of copper was removed: wiring, water pipes, you name it. Removing all that seemed like an awful lot of work to me unless scrap copper is fetching some righteous bucks.
We bought an antenna at Radio Shack and a line amp, installed them in the attic, and used the coax to avoid paying AT&TCast whatever they're charging a month. Sure, RS isn't around any more but a local hardware store or electronics supply house will have these items. We can pick up more OTA signals than we have the time to watch. Any so-called `gotta-see' shows we can get at the library or video store (yeah, they're still around).
I remember hearing those sort of warnings back in the days of curtain shutters in SLRs. Many, like the one in my FTb, were made out of rubberized fabric (lighter than metal and capable of faster shutter speeds) and pointing it at the sun for even brief periods without the lens cap on could burn nice little holes in the curtain.
As a kid, I had a Gilbert reflector telescope with a solar viewing attachment that replaced the eyepiece, It was a conical assembly that had a thin sheet of white plastic over the end that the mirrors would projected the sun onto. You could safely see sunspots and, once, a partial eclipse. Sort of wish I still had it.
... with a large cardboard box, a piece of white paper taped on the inside, and a sheet of aluminum foil taped over a hole across from the paper with a tiny hole poked in it. Essentially, a pinhole camera. There's really no need to be looking directly at the sun. Through anything. Dear $DIETY, I can't think of any reason to trust something bought on Amazon to use for viewing the sun. I'm expecting, though, to hear about numerous people with destroyed retinas on the news the day after the eclipse.
Yeah. Haven't been doing it as long as you but the results have, so far, been promising.
I headed up the technical services department at a company where that was, pretty much, the attitude of the other departments. I jokingly asked once whether they thought I/we could build/MacGiver a phaser out of old office supplies found behind the filing cabinets and the answer came back "Yes".
Vote with your feet.
Is Alexa really that necessary given that so many people are never--never--without their smart phone that they could use to do the majority of things that Alexa does? Ditto for Apple's product and Samsung's (if they can ever work out the bugs).
I've got one with the XT connector. Glad to hear there are conversion plans out there for USB. The old XT-to-PS/2 adapters are a PITB.
It may pay more than that desk job but it's more likely than not going to be a long-term job. That's a tough situation for anyone with a family; you'll be leaving the family behind to work on another short-term welding job. Then another and another. Not everyone can take that for long.
As for everyone wanting to go to college... I know one car rental company that--at least at one time--wanted their employees to have a college education just to stand behind the counter and help customers fill out rental forms. That's the kind of job that high school kids used to do in a work-study programs. It used to be called "Diversified or Office Occupations" when I was in HS and students got jobs in local businesses working as office clerks, cashiers, etc. At least back then, it was recognized that not all jobs required, nor were all students cut out for or even looking to obtain, a college degree. Now companies seem to be more than happy to force high school graduates to go through the process of racking up a huge college loan debt for the privilege of working for slave wages while they pay their loans off.
The wife and I lived in SE OH--maybe a half hour drive to WV--for around ten years back in the '80s. I encountered people working at some of the local businesses who were illiterate. When my wife was working at a bank there were customers (miners) who couldn't write their own name; they made a "mark" that was witnessed and initialed by their friend. Those folks are going to have the worst time of all moving to a new vocation.
...is that most users ignore them.
We used to have the motd file updated hourly with stats about availability, scheduled maintenance, disks that users should do some personal cleanup on, and other stuff that users were calling admins about and nobody paid much attention to the information. The more astute users quickly learned that that annoying information could be eliminated from their session by putting 'clear' in their profile.
Just like what happens with motd text, users will quickly learn where the advertisements will appear on their monitors and learn to not pay attention to those areas. The end result is that the ads are ignored. Well, unless you make them animated and/or play audio. Then users don't ignore them but you really tick them off and they're about as popular as a call from a telemarketer during dinner. Then you should expect to catch some hell.
Huh?