Where is this "hot job market" exactly? The SF Bay area, where a typical salary is just enough to share an apartment with 3 other people, unless you're willing to do the 3-hour commute thing?
It's always a fight for me to find work, usually 100 miles away from the previous job, most likely because HR rejects every resume lacking any keyword on the job reqs, and I'm one of the GOOD ones, with a resume that includes senior positions in big companies you've heard of. I swear HR has gone underground in the past few years, and is recruiting exclusively from LinkedIn or something.
You're in for hell if you've got a student loan hanging over your head, and you're trying to break-in to IT with a blank resume. Hell, those companies that even ASK for any education specifically say they'll consider years of work experience as a substitute, so why go deep in debt for 4 years when you could be earning money instead?
And those "competitive salaries" aren't that great when the companies expect 80 hour work weeks that burn-out their employees in 2-3 years, or with the above difficulty in finding positions when desired, and whatnot. A smart kid in the middle of flyover country studying IT will just be the most qualified janitor in the local McDonalds.
Don't forget some lovely hoops, like companies requiring you meet recruiters in-person before even submitting a resume, or the horde of foreign spammers/telemarketers-cum-recruiters who don't know what state you're in, what you're looking for, or how much of your time they're wasting, and don't care.
Why not have your kid learn to weld, following big construction jobs around the country, earning time and a half paid overtime, more than most IT Pros working the same total hours?
they could just sell the complete package in a box (just add keyboard and monitor).
People who type-up documents want SOME WAY to copy them somewhere else... Often, they want multiple ways, too.
RPis don't have floppies. They need adapters for extra SD cards or just hubs for extra USB sticks. Setting-up a modern printer under DOS is a nightmare of the first order, and Linux or Windows isn't plug-and-play stupid simple, either.
Your problem is only that you don't know how to change the default search engine. I sympathize, but it's still not the devil.
The unified address / search bar is mostly a great improvement. Telling clueless users which of the two text fields to type an address into was a nightmare. Typos in URLs were a nightmare. Wasted screen space was a negative, too.
On mobile, Dolphin works great. It's extremely easy to change the search engine used when you type into the address bar, and it's less wasted screen space, and fewer steps to start searching.
I have a dedicated search bar on Firefox, because I'm smart enough to tell them apart, and sometimes I WANT to search for "example.com" rather than visiting example.com, and sticking a second word in there is hit-or-miss.
obsolete adjective 1. no longer in general use; fallen into disuse: an obsolete expression. 2. of a discarded or outmoded type; out of date: an obsolete battleship. 3. (of a linguistic form) no longer in use, especially, out of use for at least the past century. Compare archaic. 4. effaced by wearing down or away. 5. Biology. imperfectly developed or rudimentary in comparison with the corresponding character in other individuals, as of the opposite sex or of a related species.
Who's to tell him he can't use it, or an IBM Selectric, or even a quill pen and vellum?
Nobody is saying he can't use it. But a quill pen is decidedly obsolete.
Nothing is obsolete if it still works for your needs.
It's obsolete if something else works better in every way. You can continue to use obsolete tools if you like, but you can't say they aren't what they are.
Using a couple of orders of magnitude more power to complete the same task, could qualify something as "obsolete", wouldn't you say? Just not being in popular use anymore fits the definition, and DOS squarely fits there, too.
last I checked, all-electric cars needed a high current dedicated charging station.
In other words, you never checked. It wasn't true for the EV1 two decades ago, which offered a 120V charger as an option, and it's certainly not true for modern EVs like the Tesla and Leaf, or plug-in hybrids like the Prius.
HIGH-SPEED electric charging stations are not. Most EVs and plug-in hybrids can just plug-in to an electrical outlet, and slowly charge up over several hours. Not great when driving cross-country, but perfect when driving 200+ miles to visit someone, knowing you'll be able to fuel-up for the return trip over the time you're there, with no extra time or effort involved.
Or to take it a little further, the local gov wires from a main switching hub/CO to all the residences in the area, then ISP's wire up to the hubs/CO's, and lease access to the residences. That similar to DSL style, but with fiber instead of copper, and the telco's do not own the last mile.
That's all fine and well, if you assume fiber is perfect.
A few years ago, would you have had the "local gov" wiring their city with twisted pair telephone lines, or coax? And now that they've invested all that money and speeds are maxed-out with copper, would they be anxious to invest in replacing the entire infrastructure they haven't made a profit on, yet?
Or would you, perhaps, have had them invest in wireless service delivery... Perhaps pre-wifi technologies like "wireless cable TV" companies were using? Or would you have deployed maybe 3G cellular, which is now relatively slow and due for expensive replacements?
What would the upgrade path be? Would you prefer fiber to the block, like AT&T's U-Verse, or would you suggest they spend lots more money for FTTH, to offer higher speeds nobody is going to want to buy just yet, but will in the future?
And this is relevant today. The fiber installed today isn't going to be state-of-the-art for very long. The transceivers, splitters, and whatnot may be upgradeable once or twice (and how quickly will your "local gov" want to pay for that?), but then it needs to be replaced, wholesale, with wider-bandwidth fiber.
You're going to give me the age old argument that the US is much larger and more spread out
No, I'll use the argument that man-power and regulatory compliance costs a lot more in 1st world countries, and there are lots of other stable and profitable places to invest money.
No, the manual is on the file system, and they're far better than the crap documentation you get from Linux or other Unixes. It just also happens to be available, in a convenient location on the web.
...until you put a typo in/etc/fstab when you're not used to plain old vi, and get to discover the joys of learning ed. Without a man page because that was in/usr too.
Some reason you can't just manually run "mount" from the command-line to mount the/usr partition, and get vi and man pages back?
And is there some reason you couldn't just visit the website to access the man pages?
That doesn't relate to any of the (layering) changes you listed. That's a simple byproduct of ZFS being a copy-on-write (CoW) file system, unlike most other popular file systems. But there are other CoW file systems out there, which similarly have O(1) snapshots.
In the long run a gas tank is going to become cheaper than a battery array
Hydrogen also requires a ridiculously EXPENSIVE fuel cell, which is not going to be cheaper than relatively simple batteries for the foreseeable future.
Hydrogen is refillable. Hydrogen stations only needs electric and water. People will have them at their own houses.
Batteries are refillable. Charging stations only need electric. People charge them at their own houses all the time.
Hydrogen is NOT refillable at home. You can't just run electricity through water and dump it into your tank. You need ridiculously high pressures and low temperatures. A more modest contraption, a CNG home fueling station, runs at least $5,000. A home hydrogen fueling station will cost far more than that, as will the operating costs. You also won't be able to compete with the hydrogen prices of industrial suppliers, who generate it from natural gas. And the end-to-end losses are FAR, FAR higher than battery electric, and therefor cost several times more in fuel costs.
People who want to make a hydrogen refilling station will have a low barrier to entry. There might even be people who get solar arrays to help produce more hydrogen for their gas stations.
The above is true of electric charging stations, and completely false for hydrogen fueling stations.
So hydrogen is poised to be the more economical car in the long run (like 10-20 years if research keeps going).
Completely the opposite of reality. A fuel cell costs more than your house. A battery pack costs less than your car. Batteries are vastly more efficient at storing energy than conversion to/from hydrogen, and full-EVs are only a very small step away from being economical and practical. Hydrogen needs a major breakthrough, an order of magnitude reduction in up-front and ongoing prices across the board before it can compete with conventional combustion engines.
But in the end, the success/failure of hydrogen containment and fuel cells really doesn't matter. Electric vehicles will need range-extenders for the next decade or two... Conventional combustion engines are the current choice, and a practical one, as proven by the Chevy Volt. If fuel cells (whether running on hydrogen, methanol, or unleaded gasoline) ever get cheaper than internal combustion, EVs will happily adopt them for the 1% of the time people need extended range. In the mean time, Toyota's R&D on free-piston engines might improve the efficiency significantly, reducing or eliminating the benefit of fuel cells.
And who can forget "The Maine", whose faked fraudulently advertised bomb destruction in 1898 was a vital trigger of the Spanish-American War?
The Cuban government promoted that conspiracy theory, but there's no evidence for it at all. It was most likely an accident, which happened pretty often in the late 19th century, before modern safety standards. Tensions with Spain were already so high, and war was already imminent. "it was cited by some hawks already inclined to go to war with Spain"
In a lot of cultures 16 year old are working and starting families. I'm not saying that's the preferred path, just that a 16 year old SHOULD be able to make adult decisions. The fact that they can't means that society is not raising them correctly.
No, the biology has been studied for decades. It's actually right around 25 that people emerge from their high-risk behavior and inability to weigh consequences, and start thinking straight. The traffic fatality statistics serve as a good proxy... There's a reason a huge number of 18-25 year-olds are killed in traffic accidents, and it's predominantly biological.
Usually, all you accomplish is getting tax evasion tacked onto your list.
But tax avoidance is legal, and they can easily afford all the accountants and lawyers they need to ensure they stay just barely on the correct side of that line, so there's no such downside, and many millions of dollars in upsides.
Decent smartphones can usually write to their flash memory at about 80MB/s.
Oddly enough, streaming videos doesn't actually require writing the data out to flash... Go figure. 80MBytes/sec is higher than highdef, and more like 4K video, but we'll get there soon.
Wouldn't 15Ghz have a hard time penetrating walls?
1.5GHz has a "hard time" penetrating walls, too, but that's still used quite effectively for cellular networks. Both will have no trouble at all with glass windows. And lower frequencies like 800MHz will probably remain as a lower-speed fall back in the event of window-less buildings and whatnot.
This sounds like more of a line-of-sight (antenna or directional dish) communication than mobile device.
Not exactly line-of-sight per se, as wall reflections can be quite effective with very high frequencies. See the 60Ghz Wi-Di or WirelessHD standards currently in-use.
It's also everyone who has a deep vested interest in holding SDN at bay for as long as possible.
There was a time where Cisco could go it alone in networking and push their own standards, but I don't think they could today
With about 80% of the market, they've got a lot of ability to sneak-in non-standards under the radar. Nobody intelligent would intentionally lock themselves-in to Cisco proprietary non-standards, but it's easy enough for people to buy some new Cisco hardware, and find it has some new value-add capability that companies would like to use. It only just happens to be that it's a crippled and proprietary non-standard way to do things...
I certainly don't think VMWare has that kind of clout.
The big companies that have embraced SDN, are the same ones who wouldn't use VMWare under any circumstances. The likes of Amazon and Google use open source virtualization software, which they have the resources to modify and add any features they want to add, such as SDN.
I think the more amazing thing from this article is that we've apparently figured out how to identify the gender or a star.
It's not difficult at all, in the simple cases. Boy stars are BLUE, and girl stars are PINK.
"What about the other colors" you ask? Well, there's a reason the GLBT flag is a rainbow. Some of the stars out there are FLAMING in more ways than one.
Silicon Valley tech employees are being abused by their employers!? Wow, what a ridiculous failure of perspective.
Silicon Valley wages aren't great, relative to cost of living. Working at some other tech hub will earn you just slightly less money, but the dramatically lower cost of living will make it seem like several times higher pay than Silicon Valley firms. Silicon Valley is more myth than reality, these days. Those who jumped into the Googles and Facebooks before they got big, with stock options in-lieu of salary, which ended-up being work millions of dollars several years later, are the exceptions to the rule. That's not something you should expect to see, today. In fact, most people looking for a similar gold-rush would be better off moving to the oil fields of North Dakota, today.
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Where is this "hot job market" exactly? The SF Bay area, where a typical salary is just enough to share an apartment with 3 other people, unless you're willing to do the 3-hour commute thing?
It's always a fight for me to find work, usually 100 miles away from the previous job, most likely because HR rejects every resume lacking any keyword on the job reqs, and I'm one of the GOOD ones, with a resume that includes senior positions in big companies you've heard of. I swear HR has gone underground in the past few years, and is recruiting exclusively from LinkedIn or something.
You're in for hell if you've got a student loan hanging over your head, and you're trying to break-in to IT with a blank resume. Hell, those companies that even ASK for any education specifically say they'll consider years of work experience as a substitute, so why go deep in debt for 4 years when you could be earning money instead?
And those "competitive salaries" aren't that great when the companies expect 80 hour work weeks that burn-out their employees in 2-3 years, or with the above difficulty in finding positions when desired, and whatnot. A smart kid in the middle of flyover country studying IT will just be the most qualified janitor in the local McDonalds.
Don't forget some lovely hoops, like companies requiring you meet recruiters in-person before even submitting a resume, or the horde of foreign spammers/telemarketers-cum-recruiters who don't know what state you're in, what you're looking for, or how much of your time they're wasting, and don't care.
Why not have your kid learn to weld, following big construction jobs around the country, earning time and a half paid overtime, more than most IT Pros working the same total hours?
Start typing the first 3 letters of the search, and you'll find it in the drop-down list... Not too hard.
People who type-up documents want SOME WAY to copy them somewhere else... Often, they want multiple ways, too.
RPis don't have floppies. They need adapters for extra SD cards or just hubs for extra USB sticks. Setting-up a modern printer under DOS is a nightmare of the first order, and Linux or Windows isn't plug-and-play stupid simple, either.
Your problem is only that you don't know how to change the default search engine. I sympathize, but it's still not the devil.
The unified address / search bar is mostly a great improvement. Telling clueless users which of the two text fields to type an address into was a nightmare. Typos in URLs were a nightmare. Wasted screen space was a negative, too.
On mobile, Dolphin works great. It's extremely easy to change the search engine used when you type into the address bar, and it's less wasted screen space, and fewer steps to start searching.
I have a dedicated search bar on Firefox, because I'm smart enough to tell them apart, and sometimes I WANT to search for "example.com" rather than visiting example.com, and sticking a second word in there is hit-or-miss.
obsolete
adjective
1. no longer in general use; fallen into disuse: an obsolete expression.
2. of a discarded or outmoded type; out of date: an obsolete battleship.
3. (of a linguistic form) no longer in use, especially, out of use for at least the past century. Compare archaic.
4. effaced by wearing down or away.
5. Biology. imperfectly developed or rudimentary in comparison with the corresponding character in other individuals, as of the opposite sex or of a related species.
Nobody is saying he can't use it. But a quill pen is decidedly obsolete.
It's obsolete if something else works better in every way. You can continue to use obsolete tools if you like, but you can't say they aren't what they are.
Using a couple of orders of magnitude more power to complete the same task, could qualify something as "obsolete", wouldn't you say? Just not being in popular use anymore fits the definition, and DOS squarely fits there, too.
In other words, you never checked. It wasn't true for the EV1 two decades ago, which offered a 120V charger as an option, and it's certainly not true for modern EVs like the Tesla and Leaf, or plug-in hybrids like the Prius.
No, "cracking" has been in-use for over a century:
http://science.howstuffworks.c...
HIGH-SPEED electric charging stations are not. Most EVs and plug-in hybrids can just plug-in to an electrical outlet, and slowly charge up over several hours. Not great when driving cross-country, but perfect when driving 200+ miles to visit someone, knowing you'll be able to fuel-up for the return trip over the time you're there, with no extra time or effort involved.
That's all fine and well, if you assume fiber is perfect.
A few years ago, would you have had the "local gov" wiring their city with twisted pair telephone lines, or coax? And now that they've invested all that money and speeds are maxed-out with copper, would they be anxious to invest in replacing the entire infrastructure they haven't made a profit on, yet?
Or would you, perhaps, have had them invest in wireless service delivery... Perhaps pre-wifi technologies like "wireless cable TV" companies were using? Or would you have deployed maybe 3G cellular, which is now relatively slow and due for expensive replacements?
What would the upgrade path be? Would you prefer fiber to the block, like AT&T's U-Verse, or would you suggest they spend lots more money for FTTH, to offer higher speeds nobody is going to want to buy just yet, but will in the future?
And this is relevant today. The fiber installed today isn't going to be state-of-the-art for very long. The transceivers, splitters, and whatnot may be upgradeable once or twice (and how quickly will your "local gov" want to pay for that?), but then it needs to be replaced, wholesale, with wider-bandwidth fiber.
No, I'll use the argument that man-power and regulatory compliance costs a lot more in 1st world countries, and there are lots of other stable and profitable places to invest money.
No, the manual is on the file system, and they're far better than the crap documentation you get from Linux or other Unixes. It just also happens to be available, in a convenient location on the web.
Some reason you can't just manually run "mount" from the command-line to mount the /usr partition, and get vi and man pages back?
And is there some reason you couldn't just visit the website to access the man pages?
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin...
Nope, doesn't work on Linux. NetworkManager or some other daemon will come along and overwrite your manual ifconfig change in short order.
That doesn't relate to any of the (layering) changes you listed. That's a simple byproduct of ZFS being a copy-on-write (CoW) file system, unlike most other popular file systems. But there are other CoW file systems out there, which similarly have O(1) snapshots.
Hydrogen also requires a ridiculously EXPENSIVE fuel cell, which is not going to be cheaper than relatively simple batteries for the foreseeable future.
Batteries are refillable. Charging stations only need electric. People charge them at their own houses all the time.
Hydrogen is NOT refillable at home. You can't just run electricity through water and dump it into your tank. You need ridiculously high pressures and low temperatures. A more modest contraption, a CNG home fueling station, runs at least $5,000. A home hydrogen fueling station will cost far more than that, as will the operating costs. You also won't be able to compete with the hydrogen prices of industrial suppliers, who generate it from natural gas. And the end-to-end losses are FAR, FAR higher than battery electric, and therefor cost several times more in fuel costs.
The above is true of electric charging stations, and completely false for hydrogen fueling stations.
Completely the opposite of reality. A fuel cell costs more than your house. A battery pack costs less than your car. Batteries are vastly more efficient at storing energy than conversion to/from hydrogen, and full-EVs are only a very small step away from being economical and practical. Hydrogen needs a major breakthrough, an order of magnitude reduction in up-front and ongoing prices across the board before it can compete with conventional combustion engines.
But in the end, the success/failure of hydrogen containment and fuel cells really doesn't matter. Electric vehicles will need range-extenders for the next decade or two... Conventional combustion engines are the current choice, and a practical one, as proven by the Chevy Volt. If fuel cells (whether running on hydrogen, methanol, or unleaded gasoline) ever get cheaper than internal combustion, EVs will happily adopt them for the 1% of the time people need extended range. In the mean time, Toyota's R&D on free-piston engines might improve the efficiency significantly, reducing or eliminating the benefit of fuel cells.
Electricity is both more reliable and more widely available than diesel fuel, by FAR.
The Cuban government promoted that conspiracy theory, but there's no evidence for it at all. It was most likely an accident, which happened pretty often in the late 19th century, before modern safety standards. Tensions with Spain were already so high, and war was already imminent. "it was cited by some hawks already inclined to go to war with Spain"
No, the biology has been studied for decades. It's actually right around 25 that people emerge from their high-risk behavior and inability to weigh consequences, and start thinking straight. The traffic fatality statistics serve as a good proxy... There's a reason a huge number of 18-25 year-olds are killed in traffic accidents, and it's predominantly biological.
Tell that to all the companies quite successfully using the Double-Irish or Dutch sandwich methods...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But tax avoidance is legal, and they can easily afford all the accountants and lawyers they need to ensure they stay just barely on the correct side of that line, so there's no such downside, and many millions of dollars in upsides.
Oddly enough, streaming videos doesn't actually require writing the data out to flash... Go figure. 80MBytes/sec is higher than highdef, and more like 4K video, but we'll get there soon.
1.5GHz has a "hard time" penetrating walls, too, but that's still used quite effectively for cellular networks. Both will have no trouble at all with glass windows. And lower frequencies like 800MHz will probably remain as a lower-speed fall back in the event of window-less buildings and whatnot.
Not exactly line-of-sight per se, as wall reflections can be quite effective with very high frequencies. See the 60Ghz Wi-Di or WirelessHD standards currently in-use.
"Star spangled banner flutters in the sky
Time hustles those who wait to die
Sweet sol sister
Keep on pushing till the dawn, well
Sweet sol sister
Forever dancing on and on"
-The Cult
It's also everyone who has a deep vested interest in holding SDN at bay for as long as possible.
With about 80% of the market, they've got a lot of ability to sneak-in non-standards under the radar. Nobody intelligent would intentionally lock themselves-in to Cisco proprietary non-standards, but it's easy enough for people to buy some new Cisco hardware, and find it has some new value-add capability that companies would like to use. It only just happens to be that it's a crippled and proprietary non-standard way to do things...
The big companies that have embraced SDN, are the same ones who wouldn't use VMWare under any circumstances. The likes of Amazon and Google use open source virtualization software, which they have the resources to modify and add any features they want to add, such as SDN.
It's not difficult at all, in the simple cases. Boy stars are BLUE, and girl stars are PINK.
"What about the other colors" you ask? Well, there's a reason the GLBT flag is a rainbow. Some of the stars out there are FLAMING in more ways than one.
Silicon Valley wages aren't great, relative to cost of living. Working at some other tech hub will earn you just slightly less money, but the dramatically lower cost of living will make it seem like several times higher pay than Silicon Valley firms. Silicon Valley is more myth than reality, these days. Those who jumped into the Googles and Facebooks before they got big, with stock options in-lieu of salary, which ended-up being work millions of dollars several years later, are the exceptions to the rule. That's not something you should expect to see, today. In fact, most people looking for a similar gold-rush would be better off moving to the oil fields of North Dakota, today.