So google says it could not hire highly qualified engineers due to h1-b visa issues. One could read this as "We're at the point where the people we want to hire are from XYZ country, and those are the highest qualified applicants. Those applicants which are not 'highly qualified' do not require visas."
I as a US based engineer am being told that I am not qualified. Or that b/c I require a higher salary (being based in the US), have a higher TCO.
I believe the correct term to describe a blogger is Pontification (to speak or express opinions in a pompous or dogmatic way).
Anyhow, How much success do bloggers have with doing their own research? If you were a blogger and called up some company's (say Cisco's) PR department, would you be able to land an interview with a high ranking officer even middle management? Dunno about that, but if you called up as "Sr. Editor of Network World" to ask them about the iPhone/Duke issue, I bet you could easily get through. I can't imagine Joe Blogger calling up Cisco's PR department and asking for an interview with the head of the wireless division...
The problem with bloggers is FINDING A GOOD BLOG. Let's say my parents (nontechies) are looking for a plasma tv. There's probably 500 people blogging about the latest plasma/LCD TVs. If they're lucky they'll find AVSForums, however, now they have to separate the wheat from the chaff in all the posts over there. However, if they hit CNET.com they'll get an organized review.
Maybe there are better reviews out there, but they aren't easy to find, in a centralized location, or targeted to the non-/. audience.
while you may here this said quite a bit, tailor your resume for each position. Some are looking for server admins (knowing both solaris and windows) while others (like myself) hire very specific skills (Storage admins). For example,
I know many people go to EMC, HDS, IBM classes. Or because they know how to configure VxVM (veritas volume mgr) they consider themselves Storage Admins. I'm looking for what have they specifically done in their job as it pertains to the skillset I'm looking for. Have you implemented SRDF over FCIP? Explain in detail how you migrate from a disk array coming off of lease, to a new array.
Also, if I see a resume that has 500 technologies on it. It is my every right to ask about any one of them. Just to give you an example, one guy mentioned token ring, and I brought in a CCIE coworker that helped migrate quite a few token ring companies to fastethernet. I would much rather see a resume that showed exactly what you can contribute to my team, rather then the 500 technologies that you know how to use.
Surely, you don't put 'firefox, gmail and winamp' on your resume, but you probably know how to use those.
How does nielsen account for google usage that is embedded in other application (firefox), or in your own webpage? In those cases, i'm accessing google via an API rather than surfing over to google.com and typing in my query there.
So someone's proposing that gas be priced according to the temperature outside... even though the temp of the gas (far underground) is still quite cool. Anyhow, what would stop oil companies from changing the price throughout the day? Say, crank up the price right before/during rushhour or saturday/sunday mornings? If the electric/phone companies can charge you more for using their services during 'peak hours' why not the oil companies?
I watch people water their lawns at 2pm (I'm in Calif) where its 90degrees out, or one lady down the street washes down her sidewalk every day with the garden hose. would she care if someone raised the price of water $.01/gal? doubt it. But god help those that raise the price of oil $.01.
My larger question to the/. crowd, How low do gas prices need to go before the american public will be satisfied?
What is better equipped to handle iSCSI and fibre channel storage data that the massive crossbar-IO throughput capabilities of the mainframe. Someone should label this the "From never implemented storage on the Mainframe dept.".
While technically the mainframe currently uses FibreChannel, it doesn't use it in the format that you are probably referring to. You are referring to FCP (SCSI carried over FibreChannel, which is done on opensystems hosts). While the mainframe uses FICON. It can be configured to use FCP (for linux partitions), however this is quite rare as FICON channels are used for connectivity and then the disk virtualized to the linux partition.
Second, iSCSI on a mainframe? C'mon. iSCSI is used for midrange, low end connectivity. Even if you deployed it with 10GbEthernet, the TCP overhead is too great for the protocol to even be worthwhile. Plus, when you've got a) no support on the DASD, nor the mainframe for iSCSI, and you've got 1/2/4Gb FICON available, why would you waste your IO on iSCSI.
a) Home - Poor cell reception b) Work - Good cell reception c) "out and about" - varies.
If I can eliminate the poor reception in my house by having the cell phone use my own wifi connection, then all the better. I've considered in the past getting rid of my land line, but my cell reception isn't that great.
I was there at the Valley Fair Apple store, the one which Woz showed up for. I originally was 5th in line, and through events of "holding places for various friends of others" and the generic line shinanigans (reminds me of the one person in the movie theater that says "These 15 seats are saved." WTF does "Saved." mean? In a movie theater you don't have assigned seats) anyhow...
I ended up 20th or so in line. Funny thing is, I think I was the first one to buy an iphone for myself. Almost everyone in line was buying them in quantity to either sell at a profit via ebay (haven't heard of success at that). However, back to my point of addressing Mr. Wozniak.
I realize many of you would consider him a god around here, but nonetheless his arrival was like this.
He arrived around 4am (note that by this time there was a considerable line) before the Apple store opened, and said "I'm Steve Wozniak, and I'm going to be first in line and buy 8 iPhones." What a dick, I would have thought more of him if he had gotten 'to the back of the line' like the rest of the crowd, just like every other regular joe. It's all good.
However... more importantly, one thing you won't see in the articles/blogs..
While he was in line, a 50something year old woman with a macbook tried to enter the store prior to the doors opening, as she was having battery trouble with it. Woz then proceeded to help her troubleshoot her battery issues. When she walked away I asked her, "Do you know who that is?" She responded "No." I told her, "He co-founded Apple..." She smiled, said "Oh, that's nice," and headed home to try again to fix her laptop with Woz's tips.
I did get a chance to talk to him for a minute, and he agreed with me when I asked him if he thought that when apple launches a major product (iPod/iPhone) that the atmosphere is similar to that of the US Festivals he organized in the early 80s. He agreed but added, "Less heat, less music, but the same comradarie and fun atmosphere."
Thought that was pretty slick, once a nerd always a nerd.
People hate the US b/c CNN reports us allegedly 'torturing' someone. Whether we did or not, I don't care, but the world expects us to not do it. Meanwhile, most other countries (IRAQ) aren't held to the same regards. Nobody is burning flags of Al Kada (sp?) in the streets.
Now we have a case where we're going to disclose all the spying/killing/etc that we've done 40yrs ago. Do you think that the rest of the world will follow suit? No. They'll all get together and say, "USA, I can't believe you'd do something like this. We'll burn your flag! Stop trade, Suicide bomb another coffee shop in Tel Aviv!"
When you claim to be have higher morals than everyone else, you're forced to stick by them. Nobody gives a shit if a terrorist tortures 500 soldiers. They said, "They're terrorists, they're supposed to torture." We're expected to ask our captives, "Please, Mr. Terrorist, please, tell me where you hid the bomb under the nursery school. C'mon please. I'll give you pizza and porn if you do. C'mon..." We're expected to deal with terrorists like you would trying to get a 3yr old to EAT PEAS.
Just wait to the backlash from this. Nice going gov't. You've opened up Pandora's box.
I'm assuming you don't set this up 'in a parking lot' but under some sort of cover/tarp/tent, even painting it white, putting it outside in the northern california sun, can't be very efficient as far as cooling is concerned. How much insulation do they have between the metal of the 'box' and the interior walls?
If it's RAINING, how do you keep from increasing the humidity inside the box. In our datacenters, we have sticky plastic sheets on the floor outside the datacenter so you won't track dust into the datacenter. With a door that opens 'to the outside' how do you keep out dust/dirt?
Farmers make money by selling in volume. I don't recall a farmer ever trying to make all their money selling "1 perfect strawberry." How many tomatoes do I need to sell to make this building profitable?
Do I need to pollinate by hand or only grow 'self pollinating plants'?
Lastly, what is the environmental impact of this building? (steel/concrete etc..). Similar to buying a brand new hybrid car vs a 2yr old gas powered Civic. They gas savings (environmental impact) of the hybrid is far outweighed by the amount of energy and environmental impact that went into making it.
Do you keep it under your mattress? Hope you have a really good safe in your apt/house. I make >$100k per year and last year my house was broken into TWICE. You know what they stole? Macbook, No. Stereo? No. iPOD, No. 2 bass guitars? No.
They stole the spare change I keep in a pile on my nightstand next to my bed.
In the SF area this is quite common as the thieves know there are lots of people that keep quite a bit of cash and jewelry in their house (the stereotype is Asians). I have no cash in my house 'cept what's in my wallet (and the pile of spare change). Now, I own this house (pay a mortgage), and I know exactly who has a key, as I changed the locks on the doors when I moved in. A dorm? You can't install your own deadbolts, chains etc. The maintenance staff has keys to your room and _will_ go in there when you aren't around (ex. to test the smoke detector).
One other thing to think of.. Let's say you have all your savings in your apt/house/dorm and there's a fire. What do you do now? If my local bank branch office burns to the ground, I still have my money.
Sorry buddy, "not trusting" banks may sound cool to the those who hate "the man", but it's not practical, or financially sound.
Anybody remember the senate hearing from the '80s in which the Tipper Gore lead "Parents Music Resource Center" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Music_Resourc e_Center tried to ban 20 or so albums due to excessive sex/violence in Rock music? They ended up putting a big black sticker that said "May contain..." which eventually became a beacon to kids to buy the album.
I welcome a new "Tipper Sticker" as now I'll know which games to buy.
To quote Dee Snider,
"The full responsibility for defending children falls on the shoulders of my wife and I, because there is no one else capable of making these judgments for us."
It's safe to assume that a certain percentage of windows users will never download a different browser b/c a) they don't know about alternative browsers b) IE is good enough c) don't care. How many of those users that don't fall into the above catagories downloaded firefox and then in the past couple of days downloaded Safari? Could sarfari be canabalizing FF users? Are we just seeing 'churn' here whereby people go from FF to safari and back again?
I highly doubt these 1million were users that have never used a third party browser.
So if I wanted to use this thing as a coffee table, which in many homes sits in front of the couch, I would then have to run a powercord across the floor to this 'table'? Nice.
How much power does this thing consume? Wonder what happens to it if you spill a drink on the surface.
There was an article in Scientific American magazine circa 1992 that predicted that at some point a computer would have enough power to have every possible move stored up, and upon starting the game it would have immediately announed "Mate in X moves." As you continued to play, it would eliminate millions of games, while still counting down "Mate in X-1 moves.."
Almost all chess programs now have an "opening library" of opening move strategies, so it's not that far to extend that library to 10-15-20-50-100 moves...
Has anybody noticed that for the general public, audio and video quality is heading in opposite directions? Head down to your local "big box store" and you'll see that they're pushing products that have superior VIDEO quality:
digital/satellite cable, HDTV, LCD/plasma screens with 1080i/p.
However, when it comes to audio, the sources for audio (mp3s for the majority) are worse quality now, then at any other point. Records, tapes, even plain old CDs have better quality than some down sampled mp3.
Are we getting complacent with our audio quality? Or is it just that the jump to HDTV from non-HDTV video is so great that it's an easy sell? Walk over to the AudioDVD/SACD section and you'll see almost nothing. Companies push for you to buy a $2000 stereo system, and then feed it with 128kbps mp3s...
Let's see, if you're writing a program that will circumvent security measures, if he had gone to IT and said "I'm writing a program to test CCA..." he wouldn't have been in deep water as opposed to trying to explain why he did it "No, I wasn't trying to hack the network, I was writing a *test application* and then go to cisco"..
If he had nothing to hide in the first place, then he shouldn't have hid it in the first place.
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So google says it could not hire highly qualified engineers due to h1-b visa issues. One could read this as "We're at the point where the people we want to hire are from XYZ country, and those are the highest qualified applicants. Those applicants which are not 'highly qualified' do not require visas."
I as a US based engineer am being told that I am not qualified. Or that b/c I require a higher salary (being based in the US), have a higher TCO.
I believe the correct term to describe a blogger is Pontification (to speak or express opinions in a pompous or dogmatic way).
Anyhow, How much success do bloggers have with doing their own research? If you were a blogger and called up some company's (say Cisco's) PR department, would you be able to land an interview with a high ranking officer even middle management? Dunno about that, but if you called up as "Sr. Editor of Network World" to ask them about the iPhone/Duke issue, I bet you could easily get through. I can't imagine Joe Blogger calling up Cisco's PR department and asking for an interview with the head of the wireless division...
The problem with bloggers is FINDING A GOOD BLOG. Let's say my parents (nontechies) are looking for a plasma tv. There's probably 500 people blogging about the latest plasma/LCD TVs. If they're lucky they'll find AVSForums, however, now they have to separate the wheat from the chaff in all the posts over there. However, if they hit CNET.com they'll get an organized review.
Maybe there are better reviews out there, but they aren't easy to find, in a centralized location, or targeted to the non-/. audience.
while you may here this said quite a bit, tailor your resume for each position. Some are looking for server admins (knowing both solaris and windows) while others (like myself) hire very specific skills (Storage admins). For example,
I know many people go to EMC, HDS, IBM classes. Or because they know how to configure VxVM (veritas volume mgr) they consider themselves Storage Admins. I'm looking for what have they specifically done in their job as it pertains to the skillset I'm looking for. Have you implemented SRDF over FCIP? Explain in detail how you migrate from a disk array coming off of lease, to a new array.
Also, if I see a resume that has 500 technologies on it. It is my every right to ask about any one of them. Just to give you an example, one guy mentioned token ring, and I brought in a CCIE coworker that helped migrate quite a few token ring companies to fastethernet. I would much rather see a resume that showed exactly what you can contribute to my team, rather then the 500 technologies that you know how to use.
Surely, you don't put 'firefox, gmail and winamp' on your resume, but you probably know how to use those.
How does nielsen account for google usage that is embedded in other application (firefox), or in your own webpage? In those cases, i'm accessing google via an API rather than surfing over to google.com and typing in my query there.
So someone's proposing that gas be priced according to the temperature outside... even though the temp of the gas (far underground) is still quite cool. Anyhow, what would stop oil companies from changing the price throughout the day? Say, crank up the price right before/during rushhour or saturday/sunday mornings? If the electric/phone companies can charge you more for using their services during 'peak hours' why not the oil companies?
/. crowd, How low do gas prices need to go before the american public will be satisfied?
I watch people water their lawns at 2pm (I'm in Calif) where its 90degrees out, or one lady down the street washes down her sidewalk every day with the garden hose. would she care if someone raised the price of water $.01/gal? doubt it. But god help those that raise the price of oil $.01.
My larger question to the
While technically the mainframe currently uses FibreChannel, it doesn't use it in the format that you are probably referring to. You are referring to FCP (SCSI carried over FibreChannel, which is done on opensystems hosts). While the mainframe uses FICON. It can be configured to use FCP (for linux partitions), however this is quite rare as FICON channels are used for connectivity and then the disk virtualized to the linux partition.
Second, iSCSI on a mainframe? C'mon. iSCSI is used for midrange, low end connectivity. Even if you deployed it with 10GbEthernet, the TCP overhead is too great for the protocol to even be worthwhile. Plus, when you've got a) no support on the DASD, nor the mainframe for iSCSI, and you've got 1/2/4Gb FICON available, why would you waste your IO on iSCSI.
+1 Mod parent up.
I get most of my mobile calls when i'm at:
a) Home - Poor cell reception
b) Work - Good cell reception
c) "out and about" - varies.
If I can eliminate the poor reception in my house by having the cell phone use my own wifi connection, then all the better. I've considered in the past getting rid of my land line, but my cell reception isn't that great.
I was there at the Valley Fair Apple store, the one which Woz showed up for. I originally was 5th in line, and through events of "holding places for various friends of others" and the generic line shinanigans (reminds me of the one person in the movie theater that says "These 15 seats are saved." WTF does "Saved." mean? In a movie theater you don't have assigned seats) anyhow...
I ended up 20th or so in line. Funny thing is, I think I was the first one to buy an iphone for myself. Almost everyone in line was buying them in quantity to either sell at a profit via ebay (haven't heard of success at that). However, back to my point of addressing Mr. Wozniak.
I realize many of you would consider him a god around here, but nonetheless his arrival was like this.
He arrived around 4am (note that by this time there was a considerable line) before the Apple store opened, and said "I'm Steve Wozniak, and I'm going to be first in line and buy 8 iPhones." What a dick, I would have thought more of him if he had gotten 'to the back of the line' like the rest of the crowd, just like every other regular joe. It's all good.
However... more importantly, one thing you won't see in the articles/blogs..
While he was in line, a 50something year old woman with a macbook tried to enter the store prior to the doors opening, as she was having battery trouble with it. Woz then proceeded to help her troubleshoot her battery issues. When she walked away I asked her, "Do you know who that is?" She responded "No." I told her, "He co-founded Apple..." She smiled, said "Oh, that's nice," and headed home to try again to fix her laptop with Woz's tips.
I did get a chance to talk to him for a minute, and he agreed with me when I asked him if he thought that when apple launches a major product (iPod/iPhone) that the atmosphere is similar to that of the US Festivals he organized in the early 80s. He agreed but added, "Less heat, less music, but the same comradarie and fun atmosphere."
Thought that was pretty slick, once a nerd always a nerd.
I put a lot more "wear and tear" on my running shoes which have a gel in the sole. In the 15 years I've been running, I've never had gel leak.
Let's see...
People hate the US b/c CNN reports us allegedly 'torturing' someone. Whether we did or not, I don't care, but the world expects us to not do it. Meanwhile, most other countries (IRAQ) aren't held to the same regards. Nobody is burning flags of Al Kada (sp?) in the streets.
Now we have a case where we're going to disclose all the spying/killing/etc that we've done 40yrs ago. Do you think that the rest of the world will follow suit? No. They'll all get together and say, "USA, I can't believe you'd do something like this. We'll burn your flag! Stop trade, Suicide bomb another coffee shop in Tel Aviv!"
When you claim to be have higher morals than everyone else, you're forced to stick by them. Nobody gives a shit if a terrorist tortures 500 soldiers. They said, "They're terrorists, they're supposed to torture." We're expected to ask our captives, "Please, Mr. Terrorist, please, tell me where you hid the bomb under the nursery school. C'mon please. I'll give you pizza and porn if you do. C'mon..." We're expected to deal with terrorists like you would trying to get a 3yr old to EAT PEAS.
Just wait to the backlash from this. Nice going gov't. You've opened up Pandora's box.
I was originally floored by the amount of hardware required to run Vista. So now with all the eye candy brought on in Vista, I was wondering...
"What could MSFT do next to require me to once again throw out my computer and buy the latest and greatest hardware in 2008 or 2009?"
Virtualization. MSFT Vista 4.0 or 3.51 or 95/98 or 2009... Would require:
Min of 1GB of RAM.
1TB HD (supplied by FibreChannel disk).
Quad Core CPU
Dual Core GPU.
All I wanted was to be able to surf the web and play Civ. I now require the computational power of an IBM p590.
I'm assuming you don't set this up 'in a parking lot' but under some sort of cover/tarp/tent, even painting it white, putting it outside in the northern california sun, can't be very efficient as far as cooling is concerned. How much insulation do they have between the metal of the 'box' and the interior walls?
If it's RAINING, how do you keep from increasing the humidity inside the box. In our datacenters, we have sticky plastic sheets on the floor outside the datacenter so you won't track dust into the datacenter. With a door that opens 'to the outside' how do you keep out dust/dirt?
Farmers make money by selling in volume. I don't recall a farmer ever trying to make all their money selling "1 perfect strawberry." How many tomatoes do I need to sell to make this building profitable?
Do I need to pollinate by hand or only grow 'self pollinating plants'?
Lastly, what is the environmental impact of this building? (steel/concrete etc..). Similar to buying a brand new hybrid car vs a 2yr old gas powered Civic. They gas savings (environmental impact) of the hybrid is far outweighed by the amount of energy and environmental impact that went into making it.
Didn't they have these in SimCity 2000?
Do you keep it under your mattress? Hope you have a really good safe in your apt/house. I make >$100k per year and last year my house was broken into TWICE. You know what they stole? Macbook, No. Stereo? No. iPOD, No. 2 bass guitars? No.
They stole the spare change I keep in a pile on my nightstand next to my bed.
In the SF area this is quite common as the thieves know there are lots of people that keep quite a bit of cash and jewelry in their house (the stereotype is Asians). I have no cash in my house 'cept what's in my wallet (and the pile of spare change). Now, I own this house (pay a mortgage), and I know exactly who has a key, as I changed the locks on the doors when I moved in. A dorm? You can't install your own deadbolts, chains etc. The maintenance staff has keys to your room and _will_ go in there when you aren't around (ex. to test the smoke detector).
One other thing to think of.. Let's say you have all your savings in your apt/house/dorm and there's a fire. What do you do now? If my local bank branch office burns to the ground, I still have my money.
Sorry buddy, "not trusting" banks may sound cool to the those who hate "the man", but it's not practical, or financially sound.
I welcome a new "Tipper Sticker" as now I'll know which games to buy.
To quote Dee Snider, "The full responsibility for defending children falls on the shoulders of my wife and I, because there is no one else capable of making these judgments for us."
How is 'fanboyism' any different from cheering for your favorite sports team, political candidate or having faith in your religion.
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And in keeping with the tradition of analogies on
Apple hardware is like the Yankees, someone paid far too much and got so little.
Either way, both the Yankees and Apple suck.
Yours Truly,
Curt Shilling
It's safe to assume that a certain percentage of windows users will never download a different browser b/c a) they don't know about alternative browsers b) IE is good enough c) don't care. How many of those users that don't fall into the above catagories downloaded firefox and then in the past couple of days downloaded Safari? Could sarfari be canabalizing FF users? Are we just seeing 'churn' here whereby people go from FF to safari and back again?
I highly doubt these 1million were users that have never used a third party browser.
Unlike the poachers who killed one of the last two White Rhinos, who were living in a "heavily protected" sanctuary. http://www.znbc.co.zm/media/news/viewnews.cgi?cate gory=9&id=1181243151 and according to CNN, http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/05/31/rhino.d eath.ap/index.html there maybe as few as 13 left in the world
So if I wanted to use this thing as a coffee table, which in many homes sits in front of the couch, I would then have to run a powercord across the floor to this 'table'? Nice.
How much power does this thing consume? Wonder what happens to it if you spill a drink on the surface.
There was an article in Scientific American magazine circa 1992 that predicted that at some point a computer would have enough power to have every possible move stored up, and upon starting the game it would have immediately announed "Mate in X moves." As you continued to play, it would eliminate millions of games, while still counting down "Mate in X-1 moves.."
Almost all chess programs now have an "opening library" of opening move strategies, so it's not that far to extend that library to 10-15-20-50-100 moves...
Where's VanHalen?
I agree that audio tech has reached a certain plateau with regards to DVD-A and SACD, however, mp3s seem like a 'step backwards'.
Has anybody noticed that for the general public, audio and video quality is heading in opposite directions? Head down to your local "big box store" and you'll see that they're pushing products that have superior VIDEO quality:
digital/satellite cable, HDTV, LCD/plasma screens with 1080i/p.
However, when it comes to audio, the sources for audio (mp3s for the majority) are worse quality now, then at any other point. Records, tapes, even plain old CDs have better quality than some down sampled mp3.
Are we getting complacent with our audio quality? Or is it just that the jump to HDTV from non-HDTV video is so great that it's an easy sell? Walk over to the AudioDVD/SACD section and you'll see almost nothing. Companies push for you to buy a $2000 stereo system, and then feed it with 128kbps mp3s...
Let's see, if you're writing a program that will circumvent security measures, if he had gone to IT and said "I'm writing a program to test CCA..." he wouldn't have been in deep water as opposed to trying to explain why he did it "No, I wasn't trying to hack the network, I was writing a *test application* and then go to cisco"..
If he had nothing to hide in the first place, then he shouldn't have hid it in the first place.