I am 23 years old with no degree. In 2004 I started work for a marketing company doing cold calls (everyone has to have a job). During that time, I made a few suggestions on how to increase the responsiveness of our auto-dialer and get better results. After a few of those suggestions were implemented I was handed the system to manage and enhance as I saw fit.
Then my company wanted to increase its web presence. With my High School Web Design and Creative Design classes, I put the company on track for a giant web presence (you've probably seen my work if you've looked for a car in any southern metropolitan area).
Fast forward a couple months and I was put back to making cold calls because the web business hadn't taken off (yet). Here is where the tough choice comes in. Do you continue making calls, or do you HOPE that experience puts you elsewhere. Well I went on hope.
I started working in a DSL help desk for $10 an hour ($5 less than what i was making). I sat in the call center for 2 months before making supervisor, and then product specialist (ended up going from $10 to $28 an hour). I felt myself in another dead end, so I bailed yet again.
I worked tech support at a Hosting Provider for about 4 months before making Jr. System Admin. At this point in my life I had NEVER seen or even touched a linux system. I spent a year and a half as a Jr. and realized that my boss was going to be the end of my sanity and my career if I didn't leave, so I left.
I got a job at SAAS company working as a System Admin for their servers (over 100 Linux Servers). I get paid very very very well (imagine what other people that are 23 with no degree...or even with degree make). And that job came from 10 months of web design experience, 6 months of tech support (total) and a year and a half of admin experience.
I'm not saying my story is typical, what im really getting at is if you can digest computer languages and systems with ease, and sell yourself as a million dollars, you will have no problem making it as an admin or a programmer. Many of the techies in my office dont have degrees (no one in the sys admin side has one), and I would love to put us against a lot of other degree touting individuals when it comes to information about the field. It all has to do with how quickly you can adapt. If you can do it...You'll succeed. If you can get yourself noticed for the excellent work and ideas you produce, you'll succeed. The meek may inherit the earth, but they will be waiting quite a while. Get out there and sell yourself and you'll SUCCEED!
I am of the same mind. On my E6400 Disk IO is my biggest bottleneck when running conversions. The 10k Drive boosted conversion speed from 3x to about 3.7x for a 700MB 1hr TV show. Not a great result, but not bad either.
Why use constants if they want it to be the standard. That just doesnt make sense. There will always be a key, but why have a back door key available as well.
It just makes no sense. I think the 'fear mongering' is justified cause this is just a stupid practice to implement.
The fact that someone that actually reads slash dot made a comment like that is just.......disheartening.
Even my fellow geeks have joined the dark side (had to make a Star Wars reference).
This is the comment I've been waiting for. I've been a Seagate proponent for a long time, and I could not imagine taking their money. I would hope to God no self respecting geek could either.
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I am 23 years old with no degree. In 2004 I started work for a marketing company doing cold calls (everyone has to have a job). During that time, I made a few suggestions on how to increase the responsiveness of our auto-dialer and get better results. After a few of those suggestions were implemented I was handed the system to manage and enhance as I saw fit.
Then my company wanted to increase its web presence. With my High School Web Design and Creative Design classes, I put the company on track for a giant web presence (you've probably seen my work if you've looked for a car in any southern metropolitan area).
Fast forward a couple months and I was put back to making cold calls because the web business hadn't taken off (yet). Here is where the tough choice comes in. Do you continue making calls, or do you HOPE that experience puts you elsewhere. Well I went on hope.
I started working in a DSL help desk for $10 an hour ($5 less than what i was making). I sat in the call center for 2 months before making supervisor, and then product specialist (ended up going from $10 to $28 an hour). I felt myself in another dead end, so I bailed yet again.
I worked tech support at a Hosting Provider for about 4 months before making Jr. System Admin. At this point in my life I had NEVER seen or even touched a linux system. I spent a year and a half as a Jr. and realized that my boss was going to be the end of my sanity and my career if I didn't leave, so I left.
I got a job at SAAS company working as a System Admin for their servers (over 100 Linux Servers). I get paid very very very well (imagine what other people that are 23 with no degree...or even with degree make). And that job came from 10 months of web design experience, 6 months of tech support (total) and a year and a half of admin experience. I'm not saying my story is typical, what im really getting at is if you can digest computer languages and systems with ease, and sell yourself as a million dollars, you will have no problem making it as an admin or a programmer. Many of the techies in my office dont have degrees (no one in the sys admin side has one), and I would love to put us against a lot of other degree touting individuals when it comes to information about the field. It all has to do with how quickly you can adapt. If you can do it...You'll succeed. If you can get yourself noticed for the excellent work and ideas you produce, you'll succeed. The meek may inherit the earth, but they will be waiting quite a while. Get out there and sell yourself and you'll SUCCEED!
Everyone knows that the horde is full of left wing nut jobs, DUH! -Level 70 Troll Rogue
All I can say is, werd. That was a little anti-climactic.
I am of the same mind. On my E6400 Disk IO is my biggest bottleneck when running conversions. The 10k Drive boosted conversion speed from 3x to about 3.7x for a 700MB 1hr TV show. Not a great result, but not bad either.
This is nothing new by any strech of the imagination. People have been adding malware links in ASF files since at least 2002.
SSL (RSA DSA encrypted tunnel) and PGP (GPG) at the same time is the only way my company ever electronically transmits sensitive personal information.
Why use constants if they want it to be the standard. That just doesnt make sense. There will always be a key, but why have a back door key available as well.
It just makes no sense. I think the 'fear mongering' is justified cause this is just a stupid practice to implement.
The fact that someone that actually reads slash dot made a comment like that is just.......disheartening. Even my fellow geeks have joined the dark side (had to make a Star Wars reference).
This is the comment I've been waiting for. I've been a Seagate proponent for a long time, and I could not imagine taking their money. I would hope to God no self respecting geek could either.