When you're hiring, you have very little to go on when it comes to judging attitued, aptitude, knowledge and skills.
Certification should be considered as a contribution to the knowledge part, but not much more than that. Even when it comes to knowledge it should be suggestive and not deterministic.
Problem is, lots of people with lower skills, knowledge and aptitude than those required by a position are the ones doing the hiring, and so take these certification as an indicator of all 4 characteristics I mentioned earlier, instead of just 1.
If you're a manager doing the hiring, please note that certification is not that very different from any other seminar when it comes to judging how good an employee will be.
If you're the one looking to get hired, please note that most managers won't pay attention to my previous paragraph and so certification will probably help you find a job.
You know there are tons of Microsoft money and lots of people who's sole job it is to convince governments that $400 worth of software is cheaper than free right?
And then we have the whole chicken|egg problem: staroffice is expensive to maintain because you have all those perky support calls from people that try to make it work with MSOffice... so what does the Socttish government do? they add more MS Office to integrate better, instead of adding more Staroffice or Open Office (or any other open-standards based office app)...
I wonder what the taxpayers would say if this was explained to them...
I watched the whole first season...I struggled with a few episodes of the second season...and then I started downloading stargate...After sitting through the first season of stargate I tried to go back to ST:E and just couldn't sit through a signle episode.
Than NEVER happened to me with anything star trek...not even voyager in its bad days...not even ST Nemesis (which was terrible).
I realized I was only watching enterprise because it was Star Trek, not because it was worth it.
For the love of god, leave this franchise alone until you can find the equivalent of Jackson for LOTR.
Hey, if our brains do a nice enough job using lots of parallel instruction "dumb" processors, why are we so obssessed with ultra fast only-a-few-instructions-at-a-time single processors? I think the whole approach of the cell architechture is the right way to move forward.
Please spare me the "the brain can't multiply 100000*1234555 fast enough" argument. We can have the best of both worlds: complex single "cells" (unlike brain cells) repeated many many times for parallelism.
I wonder if those microsoft studies that show Windows' TCO better than Linux's account for the "productivity" of a linux engineer...
What i'm sure it doesn't show is that a linux engineer handling 200 computers can provide a much better service (due to the fact that more is "known and controllable" in linux than windows) than a windows sysadmin handling the same amount of computers, resulting in lower costs of security, less costs related to spywares, viruses, user support calls, etc.
A Soyuz doesn't have the cargo capacity that the Shuttle has, which is why ISS construction has been halted and supplies are running tight.
The real question is if America should continue supporting the construction of the ISS. Circumstantially I think she should, even if the scientific and engineering profit from the program is limited.
They're on the UK schedule so you can download the first 13 episodes at very high quality. (I hook it up to my 48" TV @ 640X480 and looks as good as Direct TV).
I live in Panama, so it's not like I can get it any other way.
NASA? you do realize Huygens was a ESA+NASA effort...and in fact, most of the probe's development was european? NASA's Cassini was the carrier of the probe, but the probe is an European accomplishment first.
What I need is for these tools to look into email headers, so that if I'm looking for information regarding "contract negotiations with Xerox" it will look into the "to:" line in the message header (@xerox.com) even if the message doesn't mention the company's name. The fact that this feature's not there yet has been the source of at least 50% of all failures by google desktop to find what I'm looking for. Yahoo doesn't seem to fix this either.
And before all those "what do you need this when you have the windows search tool" posts start popping up... two words: indexing and content (as in the content of files, not just the filename.
I'm genuinely curious. How do you play WoW with your wife? Two computers, one for each? Both sitting in front of the same screen? if so, who "controls" the character?
Although my wife is pretty cool (we watch stargate, and galactica together, sometimes play old games like some flavor of mario bros. or tetris and play a lot of scrabble together), I don't see her playing an MMORPG with me.
Shouldn't there be at least a debate on whether or not piracy is really a bad thing?
I'm trying to think if this is similar to how the alcohol-is-illegal laws were enforced before an actual debate (and other factors) led to the legalization of alcohol.
It would really suck to go to jail for 5 years for a crime that 20 years from now is not really a crime anymore...
What if I DON'T want my emails signed? What if I want to maintain deniability?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of them Google bashers (I don't believe the Google Desktop is spywer, for example), but in this case I would like to have an opt-out option!
Since you're nitpicking... who am I to stop the trend?
Lookie here, $10m in revenue because we increased this asset?
If you COULD add 10MM to your fixed or intangible assets account in your balance sheet, this would never equal 10MM in revenue! (which is an income statement account and as such usually won't relate 1:1 to how the Balance Sheet moves...) if anything it would mean a $10MM expense, cost or investment to acquire those assets...
And even if it was a Current Assets account we were talking about, a 10MM increase in those accounts would very rarely come as the results of 10MM in revenue...
You know TFA is a load of crap when the excerpt is about the same size as the actual article...and half of the article's page is devoted to promoting some financial news service.
This is, by far, one of the worst news posts EVER on slashdot.
In fact, do go to the article and witness the historic event.
- micormeteorites hitting the capsule - thrust capabilities, if any - why it is incompatible with the shuttle - some background on the company (beyond the press release)
Just like the blurbs the other day: We found aliens, they're gray and tall, three eyes and the males have breasts. SETI says so. Then a day later.... JK!, JK! there're are no aliens hidden behind the moon impersonating basketball players... we swear!
The chances of something like this becoming a successfull in the western world are lower than the chances of a world war 3 breaking out before friday.
I don't know why and I need a fellow slashdotter with better understanding of human nature to explain it better, but for some reason I can see why this would work in Japan and some other Asian cultures and NEVER in, say, Canada, Latin America, the US or Europe.
I read Cosmo... and I'm a guy. they have some pretty good writers, are focused on the "short attention span" crowd so its always a quick read, and I learn a lot about women (spare me the anti-social, slashdotters don't know women rhetoric...I have three wives and 8 children).
Oh, and they're always readily available in the magazine basket in my bathroom.
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You mean the stiff faces and strained body language of the other three movies were NOT CG? oh man...
I wonder if the alien's version of "I nuke you if you nuke me" is "I blow up your star if you blow up my star"....
Maybe one of them blinked first.
When you're hiring, you have very little to go on when it comes to judging attitued, aptitude, knowledge and skills.
Certification should be considered as a contribution to the knowledge part, but not much more than that. Even when it comes to knowledge it should be suggestive and not deterministic.
Problem is, lots of people with lower skills, knowledge and aptitude than those required by a position are the ones doing the hiring, and so take these certification as an indicator of all 4 characteristics I mentioned earlier, instead of just 1.
If you're a manager doing the hiring, please note that certification is not that very different from any other seminar when it comes to judging how good an employee will be.
If you're the one looking to get hired, please note that most managers won't pay attention to my previous paragraph and so certification will probably help you find a job.
You know there are tons of Microsoft money and lots of people who's sole job it is to convince governments that $400 worth of software is cheaper than free right?
And then we have the whole chicken|egg problem: staroffice is expensive to maintain because you have all those perky support calls from people that try to make it work with MSOffice... so what does the Socttish government do? they add more MS Office to integrate better, instead of adding more Staroffice or Open Office (or any other open-standards based office app)...
I wonder what the taxpayers would say if this was explained to them...
not only in third world regions, but also in the United States
So I guess that leaves Europe, Canada, Australia, and many others out uh?
I know, I know, it's a US centric site (per your FAQ), but we still feel it you know?
...it's a joke.
I watched the whole first season...I struggled with a few episodes of the second season...and then I started downloading stargate...After sitting through the first season of stargate I tried to go back to ST:E and just couldn't sit through a signle episode.
Than NEVER happened to me with anything star trek...not even voyager in its bad days...not even ST Nemesis (which was terrible).
I realized I was only watching enterprise because it was Star Trek, not because it was worth it.
For the love of god, leave this franchise alone until you can find the equivalent of Jackson for LOTR.
Hey, if our brains do a nice enough job using lots of parallel instruction "dumb" processors, why are we so obssessed with ultra fast only-a-few-instructions-at-a-time single processors? I think the whole approach of the cell architechture is the right way to move forward.
Please spare me the "the brain can't multiply 100000*1234555 fast enough" argument. We can have the best of both worlds: complex single "cells" (unlike brain cells) repeated many many times for parallelism.
I wonder if those microsoft studies that show Windows' TCO better than Linux's account for the "productivity" of a linux engineer...
What i'm sure it doesn't show is that a linux engineer handling 200 computers can provide a much better service (due to the fact that more is "known and controllable" in linux than windows) than a windows sysadmin handling the same amount of computers, resulting in lower costs of security, less costs related to spywares, viruses, user support calls, etc.
A Soyuz doesn't have the cargo capacity that the Shuttle has, which is why ISS construction has been halted and supplies are running tight.
The real question is if America should continue supporting the construction of the ISS. Circumstantially I think she should, even if the scientific and engineering profit from the program is limited.
Bittorrent. Here: www.btefnet.com.
They're on the UK schedule so you can download the first 13 episodes at very high quality. (I hook it up to my 48" TV @ 640X480 and looks as good as Direct TV).
I live in Panama, so it's not like I can get it any other way.
NASA? you do realize Huygens was a ESA+NASA effort...and in fact, most of the probe's development was european? NASA's Cassini was the carrier of the probe, but the probe is an European accomplishment first.
What I need is for these tools to look into email headers, so that if I'm looking for information regarding "contract negotiations with Xerox" it will look into the "to:" line in the message header (@xerox.com) even if the message doesn't mention the company's name. The fact that this feature's not there yet has been the source of at least 50% of all failures by google desktop to find what I'm looking for. Yahoo doesn't seem to fix this either.
And before all those "what do you need this when you have the windows search tool" posts start popping up... two words: indexing and content (as in the content of files, not just the filename.
IcebUrgs?
So Slashdot has evolved beyond mere typos on the editor's comments and now sports typos on the headlines...
I've always found interesting that, in English, two words that are spelled differently can be pronounced the same.
I'm genuinely curious. How do you play WoW with your wife? Two computers, one for each? Both sitting in front of the same screen? if so, who "controls" the character?
Although my wife is pretty cool (we watch stargate, and galactica together, sometimes play old games like some flavor of mario bros. or tetris and play a lot of scrabble together), I don't see her playing an MMORPG with me.
Shouldn't there be at least a debate on whether or not piracy is really a bad thing?
I'm trying to think if this is similar to how the alcohol-is-illegal laws were enforced before an actual debate (and other factors) led to the legalization of alcohol.
It would really suck to go to jail for 5 years for a crime that 20 years from now is not really a crime anymore...
It's not called the fabricator, it's called The Feed. Nell can show you how to use one.
I think the fact that something that has only happened a few times in the history of mankind is not considered "news worthy" IS the news.
This is exactly the attitude that ruined the moon program if you ask me.
I think the editor that posted this news story was trying to make this point.
The real question is, will they be wearing Virigin's RED SHIRTS during the flight?
What if I DON'T want my emails signed? What if I want to maintain deniability?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of them Google bashers (I don't believe the Google Desktop is spywer, for example), but in this case I would like to have an opt-out option!
Since you're nitpicking... who am I to stop the trend?
Lookie here, $10m in revenue because we increased this asset?
If you COULD add 10MM to your fixed or intangible assets account in your balance sheet, this would never equal 10MM in revenue! (which is an income statement account and as such usually won't relate 1:1 to how the Balance Sheet moves...) if anything it would mean a $10MM expense, cost or investment to acquire those assets...
And even if it was a Current Assets account we were talking about, a 10MM increase in those accounts would very rarely come as the results of 10MM in revenue...
You know TFA is a load of crap when the excerpt is about the same size as the actual article...and half of the article's page is devoted to promoting some financial news service.
This is, by far, one of the worst news posts EVER on slashdot.
In fact, do go to the article and witness the historic event.
where's the "journal" in journalism?
This article should have also talked about:
- micormeteorites hitting the capsule
- thrust capabilities, if any
- why it is incompatible with the shuttle
- some background on the company (beyond the press release)
Just like the blurbs the other day: We found aliens, they're gray and tall, three eyes and the males have breasts. SETI says so. Then a day later.... JK!, JK! there're are no aliens hidden behind the moon impersonating basketball players... we swear!
The chances of something like this becoming a successfull in the western world are lower than the chances of a world war 3 breaking out before friday.
I don't know why and I need a fellow slashdotter with better understanding of human nature to explain it better, but for some reason I can see why this would work in Japan and some other Asian cultures and NEVER in, say, Canada, Latin America, the US or Europe.
Nasa's Messenger? I wonder if Trillian will cover it...
I read Cosmo... and I'm a guy. they have some pretty good writers, are focused on the "short attention span" crowd so its always a quick read, and I learn a lot about women (spare me the anti-social, slashdotters don't know women rhetoric...I have three wives and 8 children).
Oh, and they're always readily available in the magazine basket in my bathroom.