...because I assume they'll stop offering the stock options to the rank-and-file. Keep them for the executives. But then without that incentive they'll need to pay valuable employees more to keep them. If they won't give me stock options then they can give me cash (i.e. instead of small raise + options at review time they'll have to give more of a raise), but if they give me nothing then I go looking.
(And if you're good, it's not a down job market...)
When I joined SGI in 1997, BZFlag was an institution. The IT group in the MIPS Group would play it at lunch every day. Shooting your boss with something that looked like a photon torpedo (if your box had good graphics - I had a dual-proc Octane with very nice graphics) was very cool. It was a fun thing to do and felt like part of the culture there.
There was a program, at least inside of SGI, that was a sequel. You could be a plane or one of a couple of types of ground vehicles, and it had voice chat. It was fun and the graphics were better but things were pretty grim by the time I found it, and there wasn't a lot of game playing being done.
To me, 'liberal' is quite often near-synonymous with with this definition: Someone who wants to tell me where to spend my money, how to spend my money, where to work, how to work, how much to work, what I can and cannot own, and what I can and cannot do with my property.
To me, 'conservative' is someone who wants to tell me where to pray, what to pray for, who I can pray to, what I can read, what I can write, what I can listen to, what I can watch, how to think, and who I can fuck.
Oh, and I know plenty of "conservatives" who live in trailers and have several cars in blocks on their "lawn".
That's hardly a new term, since that's also used in describing Bluetooth networks (i.e. your phone, PDA, and headset all talking wirelessly). And personally, I like the idea of this stuff all talking wirelessly anyway.
However, given how fat I am, my Personal Area Network is probably a Wide Area Network....
That shift in a BMW is called a "money shift". Why? Cuz when you hear that sound you know that you're gonna have to spend a *lot* of money....
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There is an S-Mart in Stockton, CA (south of Sacramento) just next to I-5 going north as you leave town. On a trip to Sacramento I saw it for the first time and thought "Nah...."
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My only problem with that idea is the problem I had with KOTOR is: technology has changed so much in the time since I was born, how could it NOT change incredibly over 5000 years?
They had it on their front page yesterday but pulled it or something and I can find no reference to the story today. They are tied very closely to Lucasfilm so it makes me wonder...
I really doubt it is to "pay the rent". I think she just got tired of of the Vorkosigan universe and decided to try something else and it's been sucessful too. I happen to like the Chalion novels - I can't see how she could have a characters like Ista or Caz in the Vorkosigan novels...
Your plan is somewhat lacking...what about those of us who live in an area that isn't cheap? Sorry, but living "below my means" in the Bay Area means moving to the Central Valley. And commuting 2 hours each way to work. And guess what...more stress.
Sorry, but I happen to like my toys. I took Friday off for this Labor Day weekend to give me 4 days of no work. What did I do Friday? I went stomping around the Santa Cruz mountains in my new car. And then I came home and watched a movie on my big-ass TV. It was a good day.
Now the biggest flaw in your plan is that there is a reason you are doing work that no one wants to do. Because it sucks. What's even better is decide what you like to do and then do it. Doing what you love often leads to rewarding work.
Just pointing out that you really cannot evaluate someone's knowledge by posing questions about minor details unless you are perhaps hiring somebody with a CCIE
Well, if the person you are interviewing says they are an expert on OSPF I think that it is a fair question. What's kinda curious is the number of CCIEs that can't answer the question. I guess when I'm looking for people I want someone who knows what the protocol is supposed to do not just how to configure it.
As the man said, "You have to learn why things work aboard a starship."
To be honest, if this causes trouble for you then it's your own damn fault. If you accept OSPF packets from the Internet and/or you're not doing OSPF authentication then you deserve to be pwned.
1. Don't use an IGP on an exterior interface. 2. Don't send out routing updates on subnets/interfaces that don't need it. (For those of you with L3 switches that means using the passive-interface command on your vlans.) 3. If your routing protocol offers an authentication option then use it.
I used to think these things were obvious. Then I started interviewing other "senior" network engineers and realized they may not be...
(BTW, kiddies, if you say you're a "senior network engineer" and you say that you know OSPF and I ask you if OSPF uses multicast or unicast and when does it use it/them then you had better be able to answer the question...)
Yes, but the computer "belongs" to IT. IT is responsible for it. Mr. Rebel isn't. It *is* possible for an efficient IT deparment to keep Windows machines up to day, especially in a cloned school environment.
It'd be like my saying that for safety all cars should be bright yellow, and then spraypainting your car without your permission. Unless you've been invited to do so wiping a computer and installing your favorite Linux distro is vandalism.
Go ahead and be a rebel on your own gear. I don't think it's quite fair to turn around and re-image the machines at a school where IT staff has probably been cut to the bone and they don't have the time to go around and clean up after you....
That's nice, I suppose, but when will a company like Alpine get it's ass in gear and offer a Bluetooth phone option so that we can get similar functionality to what Acura currently offers in the TL? The car didn't impress me, but the way the Bluetooth car kit did, especially when tied in to the Nav system. I really want that in my next car. (Along with MB Quart Q-series speakers and a couple of 12" JBL Subs, of course.)
Ever tried making sure hundreds of support agents are in the right place at the right time to answer the right amount of calls? It's not easy. Especially if there are multiple centers and/or there is something happening (virus, network outtage, 9/11, etc) that's causing increased volumes.
Yeah, but if you get that message every time you call and you call a lot then it can't be that unusual, can it?!?!? It's one thing if it really is unusual. Its another if the fact is that they haven't staffed their call center with enough people.
There are usually 2 reasons for a technology to get banned in F1. The first is that it makes things too easy. They want to make the drivers have to work for the victory. That's why they removed launch control - launching the car takes skill (since you have way more power than traction). The other reason is to slow the cars down. The safety technology has trouble keeping up with speeds the cars are capable of, especially in the corners (where an accident is most likely). That's why the tyres have grooves, for example. They need to go slower. And this safety focus has helped - just look at 10 years ago when we lost 2 drivers in one weekend (including the great Senna) and nearly lost Rubens...
I consider myself a Tifosi but when Schumi is walking over everyone it's no fun. And then he loses but wins by default...I'd rather see some variety on the podium so that the end of the year is exciting. As it is I'm cheering for Jenson since I think he's doing great this season.
...sigh...don't they teach kids the ISO model anymore? Layer 8 is the Political Layer. That's the one that forces you to buy circuits from Provider B when Provider A is cheaper and better because Provider B is one of your biggest customers. Or it forces you to buy equipment from Vendor C that may not really do the job that well because someone higher up likes their consumer-level equipment...
My set does 720p native. That is true HDTV. HDTV isn't just 1080i but also 720p and many of the TV sets with an HDTV logo on them do that just fine. (Although I think the only difference between HDTV and 'HDTV Compatible' is the tuner.)
My Hitachi 50V500 gives me a GREAT picture on HD signals. Yes, 1080i stuff is being downsampled to 720p but it still looks better than the 20" CRT I had a while ago. Some day soon we'll have 1080p displays. Of course the cable systems can't handle 1080p (it would take the same bandwidth as 10+ analog channels, I heard). But given that I've assume the lifetime of a TV to be much less given how fast the technology is changing then 720p is something I can live with.
His basketball comment really pisses me off. It's like he's saying that the US engineers could compete with those in China if they wanted to. And yes, they could take those wages I suppose...
But why does no one blame the car mechanic who charges $75/hr, the construction worker with the six figure salary, or the $500,000/yr doctor? Engineers in the US can't work for China-like salaries unless everyone else here does as well.
1) An IPO is a huge distraction. I doubt, given the hype, they'll be able to stay focused on their competitors.
2) Their competitors are coming on strong. Y! is making gains in the space.
3) They could suffer from a huge brain drain. If the IPO is uber successful then a lot of folks will get very rich and leave.
That being said, I wouldn't mind having some $.25 fully-vested google options right about now...
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Just for the record, the article claims that F1 cars use a ground effect like the Bugatti. These days, actually, F1 has a few regulations to prevent that. The car bottom is flat and has a wood plank underneath that is 10mm +/- 1mm. If the plank is less than 9mm at the end of the race then the car is judged to have been riding too low.
See FIA 2004 Formula One Technical Regulations sections 13.2 and 13.3 for details.
So go get a CS degree, but not an MIS or any other such flush certificate. Cisco is good, I hear they make shit good money. But until you get the CS degree don't expect to get anywhere unless you're really lucky.
If you want to do networking it's hard to say which is better. Both, if you can. I've got the CS degree, and that may have helped me, but all my peers in my current company have CCIEs while they may or may not have CS degrees. If you want to do networking and have to pick one or the other then I'm tempted to say get the CCIE (although this could be a case of grass being greener).
The thing about the CCIE cert is that because of the lab exam it's really hard to be a "paper CCIE". Getting the cert shows that you were able to apply all the concepts in a lab setting under pretty intense time pressure. That being said being the only senior network engineer here without one here I am coming to see that it doesn't automatically mean someone is good. It just means they know networking technologies really well. It doesn't imply that they know anything about design or what it takes to run a global network (I had a CCIE recently recommend that we have multiple gateways on a host network and the users can change their default gateway based on what application they are running) it just means you can give them a diagram and they can configure it all. However it's probably still one of the best IT certs out there and I really need to get off my ass and get one.:-)
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...because I assume they'll stop offering the stock options to the rank-and-file. Keep them for the executives. But then without that incentive they'll need to pay valuable employees more to keep them. If they won't give me stock options then they can give me cash (i.e. instead of small raise + options at review time they'll have to give more of a raise), but if they give me nothing then I go looking.
(And if you're good, it's not a down job market...)
When I joined SGI in 1997, BZFlag was an institution. The IT group in the MIPS Group would play it at lunch every day. Shooting your boss with something that looked like a photon torpedo (if your box had good graphics - I had a dual-proc Octane with very nice graphics) was very cool. It was a fun thing to do and felt like part of the culture there.
There was a program, at least inside of SGI, that was a sequel. You could be a plane or one of a couple of types of ground vehicles, and it had voice chat. It was fun and the graphics were better but things were pretty grim by the time I found it, and there wasn't a lot of game playing being done.
To me, 'liberal' is quite often near-synonymous with with this definition: Someone who wants to tell me where to spend my money, how to spend my money, where to work, how to work, how much to work, what I can and cannot own, and what I can and cannot do with my property.
To me, 'conservative' is someone who wants to tell me where to pray, what to pray for, who I can pray to, what I can read, what I can write, what I can listen to, what I can watch, how to think, and who I can fuck.
Oh, and I know plenty of "conservatives" who live in trailers and have several cars in blocks on their "lawn".
That's hardly a new term, since that's also used in describing Bluetooth networks (i.e. your phone, PDA, and headset all talking wirelessly). And personally, I like the idea of this stuff all talking wirelessly anyway.
However, given how fat I am, my Personal Area Network is probably a Wide Area Network....
That shift in a BMW is called a "money shift". Why? Cuz when you hear that sound you know that you're gonna have to spend a *lot* of money....
There is an S-Mart in Stockton, CA (south of Sacramento) just next to I-5 going north as you leave town. On a trip to Sacramento I saw it for the first time and thought "Nah...."
My only problem with that idea is the problem I had with KOTOR is: technology has changed so much in the time since I was born, how could it NOT change incredibly over 5000 years?
They had it on their front page yesterday but pulled it or something and I can find no reference to the story today. They are tied very closely to Lucasfilm so it makes me wonder...
BTW, folks, a huge fleet of Star Destroyers just came out of hyperspace in Sector 12. Not to worry y'all or anything.
"What's a nubian?"
I really doubt it is to "pay the rent". I think she just got tired of of the Vorkosigan universe and decided to try something else and it's been sucessful too. I happen to like the Chalion novels - I can't see how she could have a characters like Ista or Caz in the Vorkosigan novels...
Your plan is somewhat lacking...what about those of us who live in an area that isn't cheap? Sorry, but living "below my means" in the Bay Area means moving to the Central Valley. And commuting 2 hours each way to work. And guess what...more stress.
Sorry, but I happen to like my toys. I took Friday off for this Labor Day weekend to give me 4 days of no work. What did I do Friday? I went stomping around the Santa Cruz mountains in my new car. And then I came home and watched a movie on my big-ass TV. It was a good day.
Now the biggest flaw in your plan is that there is a reason you are doing work that no one wants to do. Because it sucks. What's even better is decide what you like to do and then do it. Doing what you love often leads to rewarding work.
Just pointing out that you really cannot evaluate someone's knowledge by posing questions about minor details unless you are perhaps hiring somebody with a CCIE
Well, if the person you are interviewing says they are an expert on OSPF I think that it is a fair question. What's kinda curious is the number of CCIEs that can't answer the question. I guess when I'm looking for people I want someone who knows what the protocol is supposed to do not just how to configure it.
As the man said, "You have to learn why things work aboard a starship."
That is most true, but I was thinking about more than this vulnerability. It's all about making sure you know who you are adjacent to...
To be honest, if this causes trouble for you then it's your own damn fault. If you accept OSPF packets from the Internet and/or you're not doing OSPF authentication then you deserve to be pwned.
1. Don't use an IGP on an exterior interface.
2. Don't send out routing updates on subnets/interfaces that don't need it. (For those of you with L3 switches that means using the passive-interface command on your vlans.)
3. If your routing protocol offers an authentication option then use it.
I used to think these things were obvious. Then I started interviewing other "senior" network engineers and realized they may not be...
(BTW, kiddies, if you say you're a "senior network engineer" and you say that you know OSPF and I ask you if OSPF uses multicast or unicast and when does it use it/them then you had better be able to answer the question...)
Yes, but the computer "belongs" to IT. IT is responsible for it. Mr. Rebel isn't. It *is* possible for an efficient IT deparment to keep Windows machines up to day, especially in a cloned school environment.
It'd be like my saying that for safety all cars should be bright yellow, and then spraypainting your car without your permission. Unless you've been invited to do so wiping a computer and installing your favorite Linux distro is vandalism.
Go ahead and be a rebel on your own gear. I don't think it's quite fair to turn around and re-image the machines at a school where IT staff has probably been cut to the bone and they don't have the time to go around and clean up after you....
That's nice, I suppose, but when will a company like Alpine get it's ass in gear and offer a Bluetooth phone option so that we can get similar functionality to what Acura currently offers in the TL? The car didn't impress me, but the way the Bluetooth car kit did, especially when tied in to the Nav system. I really want that in my next car. (Along with MB Quart Q-series speakers and a couple of 12" JBL Subs, of course.)
Ever tried making sure hundreds of support agents are in the right place at the right time to answer the right amount of calls? It's not easy. Especially if there are multiple centers and/or there is something happening (virus, network outtage, 9/11, etc) that's causing increased volumes.
Yeah, but if you get that message every time you call and you call a lot then it can't be that unusual, can it?!?!? It's one thing if it really is unusual. Its another if the fact is that they haven't staffed their call center with enough people.
There are usually 2 reasons for a technology to get banned in F1. The first is that it makes things too easy. They want to make the drivers have to work for the victory. That's why they removed launch control - launching the car takes skill (since you have way more power than traction). The other reason is to slow the cars down. The safety technology has trouble keeping up with speeds the cars are capable of, especially in the corners (where an accident is most likely). That's why the tyres have grooves, for example. They need to go slower. And this safety focus has helped - just look at 10 years ago when we lost 2 drivers in one weekend (including the great Senna) and nearly lost Rubens...
I consider myself a Tifosi but when Schumi is walking over everyone it's no fun. And then he loses but wins by default...I'd rather see some variety on the podium so that the end of the year is exciting. As it is I'm cheering for Jenson since I think he's doing great this season.
...sigh...don't they teach kids the ISO model anymore? Layer 8 is the Political Layer. That's the one that forces you to buy circuits from Provider B when Provider A is cheaper and better because Provider B is one of your biggest customers. Or it forces you to buy equipment from Vendor C that may not really do the job that well because someone higher up likes their consumer-level equipment...
My set does 720p native. That is true HDTV. HDTV isn't just 1080i but also 720p and many of the TV sets with an HDTV logo on them do that just fine. (Although I think the only difference between HDTV and 'HDTV Compatible' is the tuner.)
My Hitachi 50V500 gives me a GREAT picture on HD signals. Yes, 1080i stuff is being downsampled to 720p but it still looks better than the 20" CRT I had a while ago. Some day soon we'll have 1080p displays. Of course the cable systems can't handle 1080p (it would take the same bandwidth as 10+ analog channels, I heard). But given that I've assume the lifetime of a TV to be much less given how fast the technology is changing then 720p is something I can live with.
His basketball comment really pisses me off. It's like he's saying that the US engineers could compete with those in China if they wanted to. And yes, they could take those wages I suppose...
But why does no one blame the car mechanic who charges $75/hr, the construction worker with the six figure salary, or the $500,000/yr doctor? Engineers in the US can't work for China-like salaries unless everyone else here does as well.
1) An IPO is a huge distraction. I doubt, given the hype, they'll be able to stay focused on their competitors.
2) Their competitors are coming on strong. Y! is making gains in the space.
3) They could suffer from a huge brain drain. If the IPO is uber successful then a lot of folks will get very rich and leave.
That being said, I wouldn't mind having some $.25 fully-vested google options right about now...
Just for the record, the article claims that F1 cars use a ground effect like the Bugatti. These days, actually, F1 has a few regulations to prevent that. The car bottom is flat and has a wood plank underneath that is 10mm +/- 1mm. If the plank is less than 9mm at the end of the race then the car is judged to have been riding too low.
See FIA 2004 Formula One Technical Regulations sections 13.2 and 13.3 for details.
So go get a CS degree, but not an MIS or any other such flush certificate. Cisco is good, I hear they make shit good money. But until you get the CS degree don't expect to get anywhere unless you're really lucky.
:-)
If you want to do networking it's hard to say which is better. Both, if you can. I've got the CS degree, and that may have helped me, but all my peers in my current company have CCIEs while they may or may not have CS degrees. If you want to do networking and have to pick one or the other then I'm tempted to say get the CCIE (although this could be a case of grass being greener).
The thing about the CCIE cert is that because of the lab exam it's really hard to be a "paper CCIE". Getting the cert shows that you were able to apply all the concepts in a lab setting under pretty intense time pressure. That being said being the only senior network engineer here without one here I am coming to see that it doesn't automatically mean someone is good. It just means they know networking technologies really well. It doesn't imply that they know anything about design or what it takes to run a global network (I had a CCIE recently recommend that we have multiple gateways on a host network and the users can change their default gateway based on what application they are running) it just means you can give them a diagram and they can configure it all. However it's probably still one of the best IT certs out there and I really need to get off my ass and get one.