Yes but the number attending does not even come close to the number actually getting degrees. Back in the 60's I would say that the number of baby boomers in college was pretty close to what it is today. If "generation Y"? actually gets a 70% degree rate then bachelors degrees will become worthless and you will need a masters (already moving in that direction). It doesnt matter if you have a phd with a 4.0 gpa, if you cant do the work you are unemployable. My guess is the vp that threw away the resume because the applicant didnt have a college degree is probably worthless as an employee (probably the CEOs brother-in-law or something).
I dont have a college degree, no certifications and I have managed to keep a job in the IT industry for over 25 years, by the way I work for one of the largest outsourcers there is. How? network (who you know gets you a job), learn (what you know keeps that job), adapt (do the job that needs to be done, not the job you want to do), expect nothing but give everything (expectations only lead to disapointment, you work they pay you, you are even on that account, a little unpaid overtime at crunch time goes an extremely long way). In the end an employer will value you as an employee if you add value to that company. And unfortunately adding value usually entails doing the mundane, boring and unglamorous work that, that company has to offer.
Windows Vista contains a number of new security features that, taken together, are designed to make Windows Vista-based PCs more secure and your online experiences safer. The improvements are designed to help you have:
1. A PC protected from viruses, worms, spyware, and other potentially unwanted software
2. A safer online experience for you and your family
3. An understanding of when your PC is unsafe, and the control and guidance to help improve your security
I have an OT question to the Americans around here, if Canada went to war and decided to fight that war on American soil so they wouldnt have to jepordize Canadian citizens, what would you do?
Quality of life is vastly more important than quantity of life, just because a metric is qualitative and not quanititative does not mean it is not important (economists in their extremely narrow view of the world forget this). Even Kennedy realized in 1968 that we were becoming a bottom-line society that only cares about the numbers and not its own people. How the economy became the predominant issue in this country is beyond me, education is more important, taking care of the poor is more important (even Nero with his final solution approach couldnt do anything about the poor), health care is more important, employing your population is more important. All of these things cost money and cost cutting (this does not include identifing and eliminating waste within the system, which also has a significant cost associated with it) here and there to save a buck in any of these areas only decreases the quality of life for everyone. Though it can increase a few peoples quantity of life for a short period of time. It definately does not benefit the society as a whole.
retiring and demanding Social Security and Medicare payments
Which is whats going to trash Social Security and Medicare for everyone else. So far the baby boomer generation has sucked dry every ascpect of this society that they have touched and left nothing for the generations that follow. America does not have a large enough work force to support the coming demand from its retired citizens. I feel this is why greed has become such an issue also, many of the aging executives are just trying to scam enough off of the system because they already know that by the time the last baby boomer dies there isnt going to be enough money in the system to buy a bottle of aspirin (generic aspirin at that).
Mostly I think this is bullshit, most peoples credit history does not reflect the kind of person they are. I agree it is discriminatory and the practice needs to be tested in court. But I also think this is a symptom of a deeper problem. With such a large unemployed workforce employers get 1000s of applications for every job. So basically HR ends up having to use voodoo to distinguish between all the applicants for any particular job.
How much you want to bet they have a $100 Sony branded HDMI cable for sale. You are wrong this is just a case of them trying to shaft the consumers. Sony really doesnt seem to care about their customers any more, like the plague of so many other companies these days Sony seems to be run by people who just want to get as rich as possible and could care less about providing anything to anyone, milk the system dry then move on to the next successful company and milk that one for all its worth. The crash is coming folks, you have been warned.
I agree to some extent. What I dont agree with is you representing the music industry as a bunch of swooping vultures, they may not be the most ethical, but I really dont think they can physically force artists to sign with them. If an artist is making good money just off of myspace then they probably wont sign with the studios. Though I do agree that the RIAA and the music industry lawyers are exploitative and do try to screw their signed artists, I also think that they are pretty up front when they sign an artist (the promoters sing em, the lawyers maintain the contracts).
I see this as either being a boon to the music industry or their death, it all depends on whether myspace cooperates or competes with them. I always thought the music industries biggest problem was their reluctance to foot the bill to find new artists (that is actually what regulates the industry to keep profits at a sane level). Maybe myspace can fill that roll, it is impossible for the agents (what the music industry really lacks) in the field to see/hear every band. The producers in the offices only get to review if they are lucky 5% of what is sent to them in a year. So maybe myspace can be used as a filter and the quality of artists the music companies sign will go up.
Of course all of this depends on the fact that the music industry leaders dont have some sort of messiah complex and feel they need to control what we see and hear. Which is a distinct possibility given their actions the last few years.
What makes you think these people actually care about violent crime. All this does is justify the outrageous amounts of money they have been allocated to fight whatever it is they are fighting. I mean if they really did care about violent crime wouldnt they be doing these follow ups themselves? If they really cared about violent crime one would think they would be interested enough to find out if this actually achieves the goal they are claiming to want to achieve.
Secret Agreements??? HAHA that is pretty funny. They are allowed to put those messages in their advertising because they are Business Partners that went through the Microsoft certification process, which is not secret. Microsoft often pays hardware manufacturers to write drivers for windows (or they write them themselve), they want to ensure that the new hardware is supported in windows. The only thing wrong with this is that the hardware companies are less likey to support other platforms. How this got modded +3 is beyond me.
If you voted for George W Bush you should be included with everything you mentioned, that is what he $tands for. If you were a responsible republican you would not have voted in those two elections, there is nothing that requires you to vote. You either support what he stands for or you blindly voted for someone you didnt believe in for some perverse reason. Not voting would have been a perfectly acceptable form of protest to let the republican party know that if they cant come up with someone better than who they have been coming up with they wont get elected.
Huh? Most atheists I know are very moral people, they just dont base thier morality on the fact that they may go to heaven/nirvana/happy hunting grounds some day. More than likely they are wayward souls who think they have some sort of god given right to provide entertainment to the masses at a maximized profit. Thought I do agree on one point, these people definately do not act like they are human, they act more like legal machines. Maybe we should be asking ourselves why these people are so desperate to make a profit that they are willing to abandoned their humanity?
Yes but the PDA market is dying, who needs a PDA when your cell phone has everything it offers. Where I work (one of the biggies) everyone had a PDA 5 years ago, today no one has one. These days you can get a wireless laptop for the same price or less than a full featured PDA. Heck my $99 blue-tooth cell phone can keep my contact and calendars synced up with my system at home, why would I buy a $399 PDA to do the same thing. Microsoft bragging about being the dominant player in a dying industry is not impressive to me, all that tells me is that they are too stupid to realize the market is dying.
I hope they dont sell OSX for any old PC. My Mac works out of the box because the OS is part of the box. I for one would hate to back to the windows driver/upgrade hell that caused me to go mac in the first place.
Is Apple having an unusually large number of quality control problems since its switch to Intel?
No, personally I thought Apple was doing pretty darn good in the complete platform switch between PPC and INTEL. In fact I have seen so few problems (hell they completely changed processors and I can still get my work done on them) I went out and bought one, and I am not an early adopter of anything. I would have to say kudos to apple for making the transition as painless as they have. By the way, most of the problems cited in the article are all related to what was obviously a bad batch of batteries that Apple got. I have a macbook I bought 6 months ago, that thing stays cooler than any windows based laptop I have ever owned, so the problem has been sorted out.
I dont think they so much biased but sensationalistic. They are more concerned with getting viewership so they can sell one or two minutes more of advertising so they can make another buck. The sensational stories sell, real news is actually kind of boring. All American news organizations have become the national enquirer/world news only with real stories. As a rule, if its on tv today, dont believe it.
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Yes but the number attending does not even come close to the number actually getting degrees. Back in the 60's I would say that the number of baby boomers in college was pretty close to what it is today. If "generation Y"? actually gets a 70% degree rate then bachelors degrees will become worthless and you will need a masters (already moving in that direction). It doesnt matter if you have a phd with a 4.0 gpa, if you cant do the work you are unemployable. My guess is the vp that threw away the resume because the applicant didnt have a college degree is probably worthless as an employee (probably the CEOs brother-in-law or something).
I dont have a college degree, no certifications and I have managed to keep a job in the IT industry for over 25 years, by the way I work for one of the largest outsourcers there is. How? network (who you know gets you a job), learn (what you know keeps that job), adapt (do the job that needs to be done, not the job you want to do), expect nothing but give everything (expectations only lead to disapointment, you work they pay you, you are even on that account, a little unpaid overtime at crunch time goes an extremely long way). In the end an employer will value you as an employee if you add value to that company. And unfortunately adding value usually entails doing the mundane, boring and unglamorous work that, that company has to offer.
sure sounds like antivirus to me
and Windows Defender is what again?
I have an OT question to the Americans around here, if Canada went to war and decided to fight that war on American soil so they wouldnt have to jepordize Canadian citizens, what would you do?
It is the "UPS" version
What you order the song and it doesnt get to your player for 2 weeks?
You are obviously not from Texas.
Quality of life is vastly more important than quantity of life, just because a metric is qualitative and not quanititative does not mean it is not important (economists in their extremely narrow view of the world forget this). Even Kennedy realized in 1968 that we were becoming a bottom-line society that only cares about the numbers and not its own people. How the economy became the predominant issue in this country is beyond me, education is more important, taking care of the poor is more important (even Nero with his final solution approach couldnt do anything about the poor), health care is more important, employing your population is more important. All of these things cost money and cost cutting (this does not include identifing and eliminating waste within the system, which also has a significant cost associated with it) here and there to save a buck in any of these areas only decreases the quality of life for everyone. Though it can increase a few peoples quantity of life for a short period of time. It definately does not benefit the society as a whole.
retiring and demanding Social Security and Medicare payments
Which is whats going to trash Social Security and Medicare for everyone else. So far the baby boomer generation has sucked dry every ascpect of this society that they have touched and left nothing for the generations that follow. America does not have a large enough work force to support the coming demand from its retired citizens. I feel this is why greed has become such an issue also, many of the aging executives are just trying to scam enough off of the system because they already know that by the time the last baby boomer dies there isnt going to be enough money in the system to buy a bottle of aspirin (generic aspirin at that).
Mostly I think this is bullshit, most peoples credit history does not reflect the kind of person they are. I agree it is discriminatory and the practice needs to be tested in court. But I also think this is a symptom of a deeper problem. With such a large unemployed workforce employers get 1000s of applications for every job. So basically HR ends up having to use voodoo to distinguish between all the applicants for any particular job.
How much you want to bet they have a $100 Sony branded HDMI cable for sale. You are wrong this is just a case of them trying to shaft the consumers. Sony really doesnt seem to care about their customers any more, like the plague of so many other companies these days Sony seems to be run by people who just want to get as rich as possible and could care less about providing anything to anyone, milk the system dry then move on to the next successful company and milk that one for all its worth. The crash is coming folks, you have been warned.
I agree to some extent. What I dont agree with is you representing the music industry as a bunch of swooping vultures, they may not be the most ethical, but I really dont think they can physically force artists to sign with them. If an artist is making good money just off of myspace then they probably wont sign with the studios. Though I do agree that the RIAA and the music industry lawyers are exploitative and do try to screw their signed artists, I also think that they are pretty up front when they sign an artist (the promoters sing em, the lawyers maintain the contracts).
I see this as either being a boon to the music industry or their death, it all depends on whether myspace cooperates or competes with them. I always thought the music industries biggest problem was their reluctance to foot the bill to find new artists (that is actually what regulates the industry to keep profits at a sane level). Maybe myspace can fill that roll, it is impossible for the agents (what the music industry really lacks) in the field to see/hear every band. The producers in the offices only get to review if they are lucky 5% of what is sent to them in a year. So maybe myspace can be used as a filter and the quality of artists the music companies sign will go up.
Of course all of this depends on the fact that the music industry leaders dont have some sort of messiah complex and feel they need to control what we see and hear. Which is a distinct possibility given their actions the last few years.
What makes you think these people actually care about violent crime. All this does is justify the outrageous amounts of money they have been allocated to fight whatever it is they are fighting. I mean if they really did care about violent crime wouldnt they be doing these follow ups themselves? If they really cared about violent crime one would think they would be interested enough to find out if this actually achieves the goal they are claiming to want to achieve.
Secret Agreements??? HAHA that is pretty funny. They are allowed to put those messages in their advertising because they are Business Partners that went through the Microsoft certification process, which is not secret. Microsoft often pays hardware manufacturers to write drivers for windows (or they write them themselve), they want to ensure that the new hardware is supported in windows. The only thing wrong with this is that the hardware companies are less likey to support other platforms. How this got modded +3 is beyond me.
there is plenty of motivation for crackers to write malware for OS X
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Bigot, Im sure that black people write malware as well.
I know, its beginning to kind of sound like Israel and Palestine without all of the bombings.
Doh! I was just reading something about Kennedy before posting, got my presidents mixed up :0
Biometric IDs, airport baggage checks, no-fly lists and other kinds of security theatre contributed nothing whatsoever to the outcome.
Those are in place only to constantly remind us that we are at war and should be afraid.
Kennedy was spot on when he said: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
If you voted for George W Bush you should be included with everything you mentioned, that is what he $tands for. If you were a responsible republican you would not have voted in those two elections, there is nothing that requires you to vote. You either support what he stands for or you blindly voted for someone you didnt believe in for some perverse reason. Not voting would have been a perfectly acceptable form of protest to let the republican party know that if they cant come up with someone better than who they have been coming up with they wont get elected.
They must be either atheists
Huh? Most atheists I know are very moral people, they just dont base thier morality on the fact that they may go to heaven/nirvana/happy hunting grounds some day. More than likely they are wayward souls who think they have some sort of god given right to provide entertainment to the masses at a maximized profit. Thought I do agree on one point, these people definately do not act like they are human, they act more like legal machines. Maybe we should be asking ourselves why these people are so desperate to make a profit that they are willing to abandoned their humanity?
Yes but the PDA market is dying, who needs a PDA when your cell phone has everything it offers. Where I work (one of the biggies) everyone had a PDA 5 years ago, today no one has one. These days you can get a wireless laptop for the same price or less than a full featured PDA. Heck my $99 blue-tooth cell phone can keep my contact and calendars synced up with my system at home, why would I buy a $399 PDA to do the same thing. Microsoft bragging about being the dominant player in a dying industry is not impressive to me, all that tells me is that they are too stupid to realize the market is dying.
I hope they dont sell OSX for any old PC. My Mac works out of the box because the OS is part of the box. I for one would hate to back to the windows driver/upgrade hell that caused me to go mac in the first place.
"Your only as young as the women you feel."
Is Apple having an unusually large number of quality control problems since its switch to Intel?
No, personally I thought Apple was doing pretty darn good in the complete platform switch between PPC and INTEL. In fact I have seen so few problems (hell they completely changed processors and I can still get my work done on them) I went out and bought one, and I am not an early adopter of anything. I would have to say kudos to apple for making the transition as painless as they have. By the way, most of the problems cited in the article are all related to what was obviously a bad batch of batteries that Apple got. I have a macbook I bought 6 months ago, that thing stays cooler than any windows based laptop I have ever owned, so the problem has been sorted out.
will the entire "snitch PC" system collapse under its own weight?
Not as long as the media companies have an unlimited amount of money to throw at DRM.
I dont think they so much biased but sensationalistic. They are more concerned with getting viewership so they can sell one or two minutes more of advertising so they can make another buck. The sensational stories sell, real news is actually kind of boring. All American news organizations have become the national enquirer/world news only with real stories. As a rule, if its on tv today, dont believe it.