Been there, done that and I agree. Having spent 15 years in the industry, I learned that it isn't worth the fight. Basic developer roles are, today, entry level positions. People that don't move up are despised for their "seniority" if they don't graduate to architecture or some other so-called more important role. Went that path, spent a few years running a consultancy for more experienced folks and learned that the experience actually made me want to leave programming all together. Sure, I'll still hack together a few things for fun and play with the latest trends in development, but I'm not doing that for my job anymore for two reasons. One, I don't want to deal with the kids, and two, once you get over the initial hump, it pays better to have that background and then get out! I'm not saying money is everything, but now I'm grown up, have a family and a kid to send to college so, the money sure helps. I am, however, giving back to the "community" by teaching my kid how to code like a professional and how NOT to be "one of those programmers".
Saddly I have to agree. While in those fields of wildflowers, the ideal humanity has nothing but love and respect for its fellow human, but as long as that ideal exists, countries will continue to need security organizations like the CIA to keep an eye on those that dno not share those ideals. Until the entire world unilaterally accepts one another and the common good, there is a need for a defensive stance and that stance cannot support the altruistic ideas that most of us would love to adopt.
All of that said, the EFF does an outstanding job working to hold non-defense organizations accountable to their conumers and the self imposed privacy rules that they claim to hold so near and dear. I just wish that they would pick their battles a bit better rather than trying to fight everyone at once.
I wonder how much Jay Z would be worth if his music wasn't completely designed to pander to his target audience's preferences? Seriously, this guy is mad about the commercial aspects of a company that helps the music industry to market their art to their core demographic? I mean come on... The only art that wasn't designed for people to enjoy is usually sitting in the garbage can unless someone happened to like it or make it "hip and trendy". Art in general is designed by the artist for the consumer.
Hell, our greatest and most famous works of art in history were commisioned!
It's always been about the money, except in a few very rare cases. None of these artists would enjoy their job if they weren't getting paid for it, so the argument that radio is using music as a platform for turning a profit (through advertising) isn't really an argument at all. They're all doing the same thing.
That's a really good point and I would have to agree. Letting grad students do research while they have no practical application of their yet inexperienced education is like letting a 10 year old try to drive a car just because he was able to read the manual. Giving them the task of reproducing experiments and prooving or disprooving their validity is an excellent way to get hands on experience without adding elements of risk to an already challenging field.
I suppose that's a key element to the issue this article is discussing. If only the standard methods are in the publication and some novel augmentation of a process is necessary to produce those results, there is missing data and it could not be reproduced. Too many people are anxious to publish simply because it is part of their job to do so, but if some novel component is being persued through patent or other non-disclosed intellectual property, the publication should probably be either post-poned or not submitted. It's an odd catch 22 for folks in this area of research. I tend to agree that publishing something incomplete, however, simply extends ignorance rather than contributing to the education of your peers.
If you spend several decades of your life simply trying to compute the amount of lithium in another galaxy, I am sorry for you, but to have all of that useless work proven wrong just makes me laugh a little. I am very interested to know what, if anything, this would have proved. Pretty sure this calculation isn't going to convert muslims to science and frankly it seems the only practical application.
All sarcasm aside, does anyone know what the hypothesis was designed to support or prove in the grander scheme?
As a chef that embraces modern technology, do you think that the 3D printed food technology is something you will have in your kitchen some day or is it just a fad?
I think you missed the part about having been a CTO and Director in my post. Yes there's a difference beteen project management and holding a management position. My opinion comes from having done both. My position is that I belive project management to be a stepping stone to department management since managing people, projects, budgets and business expectations are components of both roles.
I agree. I have filled positions at the Director level and CTO level and have no degree. I have 12 years of IT experience having managed multi-million dollar IT projects. No one asks for a degree anymore lol. In all seriousness, the ability to function without being managed is paramount to the ability to manage others. The other critical requirement is that you understand the business, how to relate and convey information between IT and the business.
Basically, you need to be able to solve business problems with IT solutions, explain the issues and solutions to other management, maintain a solid budget, manage internal projects and work with IT people. I'm sure that in tech support you learned the business, but that was another company. Learn the business of your current company or the one where you want the management job. Talk to non-technical people and learn to appreciate the fact that IT exists to support business. The business is your customer to learn to talk to them and treat them as such. Project Management experience is a perfect stepping stone from the technical role to the management role. I used it 5 years ago to make my transition and it worked like magic. Find a good consulting job and over time you will learn the variety of personal and management skills needed to make the transition too.
A word of caution. If you are on this site, you probably keep up with new technology. Business hates new technology as the answer to everything, although it is often applicable. Being inventive and finding ways to leverage technology that you already own to solve a business problem is the #1 way to demonstrate your ability to be a good IT manager.
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the space station ISS. It's 5 year mission to do jack shit. To hang out and accomplish nothing important whatsoever. To boldly waste more money than any other country on the "team"... (queue theme song)
Maybe Scotty can refit the space station in 5 years once Excelsior technology is ready to be integrated to make things interesting enough to make a full length Discovery film!!! Oh wait, our friend is gone... Someone go and get him. He's over by the Dyson's Sphere.
I agree. There should be a community list to call those companies back. The problem is that most are calling from call centers and when you call, you're just going to get a recording. The first part of the idea is good thought. A community list of numbers like this.
Why doesn't a company like Baracuda networks put together a call blocking system like they have for spamming URLs so that a community list can be linked to everyone's phone blocking system. It could then filter those calls to a recording that says "Your number has been blocked. If you believe this to be an error please mail a letter explaining the purpose of your call to....."
The obvious issue is that you can turn off caller id, but I would think that those calls could be routed to another message stating that this company requires calls to be identified before they are allowed.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/02/01/070201193 232.ooqqhaxc.html Looks like ATHF isn't the only one to cause a bomb scare with their publicity stunts. LA police blew up a newspaper stand last year cause there was a device attached to play the MI III theme when someone opened the door. Seems to me that bomb squads need to get better training if they can't tell a stupid light or sound show from an actual bomb.... I have 0 electrical training and can tell you if that's a fucking light-brite or a wad of C4.
Mike, I'll bet you've never solved a problem before in your life. Rather than applying simple logic, you're just blaming everything involved. That's just dumb. There's no nice way to say it. If a product works with EVERY other system out there and only shows a symptom with ONE system, then 99.999% of the time, the problem is with the part that changed.
I totally disagree. I think that parents with children would flock to an IM service that worked against issues like these. The one thing that Windows XP Home got right is the user account control. Parents can easily set up kids accounts that cannot install software. If the parent knows that one IM service is better controling content and watching out for prowlers online, they would install that system. Parents tend to talk with other parents too and it would spread like wildfire. Schools, local police and other interested parties could also do great work to spread the word. If a parent is having some sort of sexual encounter online and wants to use something else to feel like it's more discreet then fine, but I seriously think that the first IM service to offer something like this would flourish.
I agree that this is more prevention than prosecution, but if that is the case, why aren't the IM companies more involved in the prevention side of things? There has to be more that they can do on their end rather than putting all of the responsiblity on the user. I'm a parent (granted of only a 4 month old) and I'll be taking extreme precautions when my son starts typing in 2-3 more months (haha) and I will be one of the parents that does take the responsibility on himself, but there are tons of irresponsible parents out there who's children still need to be protected. I would like to see something like this be done by the IM company, not that they are taking responsibilty, but that they are trying to help. AOL provides anti-virus, but they are not responsible for a virus that gets on your computer. It's a feature. They, MSN and others should have this sort of thing licensed and integrated.
There was an outstanding program put together by Dateline (NBC) with the police http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9878187/ I was shocked to see some of the people. Imigrants, truck drivers, ex and current military men... the list goes on. There seem to be people from all walks of life that are getting mixed up in this horrible problem. Watching them get caught and talk about it was shocking.
Yea, but that was about 10-15 years ago when they broke up the Bell company into the baby bells. Then again they're all right back together again now.... Guess that takes a something away from their previous success.
Many states require that both parties of a phone conversation be aware of the fact that the conversation is being recorded or another party is listening except in the case of a warrant. If this application is watching and recording conversations, will that be admissible as evidence in a case against an online predator or will it be inadmissible since only one party was aware. I'm all for stopping these disgusting predators, but if you're going to start a company around this concept, you might want to check the legality of its application.
The FCC seems to be spending less time ensuring a competitive market for communications and wasting more time monitoring and sending out fines to radio and TV stations for using "bad language." I for one think that it is high time this group had a complete makeover. The people that are running things don't seem to have a clue about technology and the emerging markets that are being exploited by their lack of attention. This trend stinks of payoffs and corporate meddling. I'm not making any accusations as I have nothing but the smell to prove this idea, but when a group is trying to help generate more competition and the FCC refuses to support them it makes me wonder what's hiding under the covers. I'm no conspiracy maniac, but there's no way to see the FCC's position in a positive light.
I was at one of my favorite electronics stores last week and walked in at about 11 am. There were about 60 PS3s half 60s and half 20s sitting there, but they were only selling them in the $1000 bundle with 5 games and a second controller. I didn't get it cause I don't see 5 games I'm that interested in. Oh that and I don't have a 1080p TV (damn Santa and all his reindeer) which is just about all they work properly on from what I hear.
Something that I learned early enough to make a difference, but late enough to lose momentum is that your next job depends on your current job. Here's what I mean. If you are making X then you can expect your next job to be at least x +.15x or a 15% increase. I would never leave a job for more than a 15% increase unless there were serious problems. Taking the Perl job sounds like a ton of fun, but remember than smaller companies often need longer hours. The side benefits are nice, but there are usually needs on the side too. If you take the smaller raise, you will probably find yourself still working towards that x +.66x income in 5 years. If you take the.NET job you will be looking for the salary of 1.66x +.15(1.66x) rather than 1.2x +.15(1.2x)
To take the math out of this you will be playing salary catch up for years and probably won't catch up for a long time if ever. I turned down a 60% raise 7 years ago and just caught up to that level last year. If I'd taken that money then, I would be much farther ahead right now.
Let me qualify this by stating that MONEY ISN'T EVERYTHING. I understand that, but I have a wife and a son and they aren't cheap.
If I were you and didn't have a huge preference between languages, I can play Half-Life at home thank you very much. Besides every time I play almost any game with co-workers they're a bunch of peon n00bs anyway;-) and it gets old fast.
Money does mean something, otherwise we'd all be working on software projects and just giving it away... wait a second....
That works for me as long as they promise that the next Final Fantasy only takes 30 hours to beat. I mean, what about the hardcore gamers that will go 400 hours straight to finish the latest GranTurismo. I think they need to add a charging base for additional battery packs so that I can rotate battery packs during hardcore gaming sessions.... and another thing. If I'm playing against someone and their controller runs out of batteries, will they be stating there spinning in circles like players whose mice die in CounterStrike? That's always ALWAYS funny!
Eventually people will learn that their local retailer gets shipments on Tuesdays or something like that and you'll have a line outside the door every Tuesday morning to see if they got any in. That's a great marketing ploy since most retailers are pretty dead in the early hours.
I guess it's an easy way to find my phone when I loose it in the house. I can always re-sync the numbers from my PC. That is, unless you can't turn off the "stolen scream." If that's the case I promise you have at least 2 screaming phones every day standing in line for service at the local dealer because they thought the phone was stolen, but found it under the bed or something. What aout the moron that leaves their phone at the office. Everyone is quietly working and a cell phone that was left at work starts to scream... This sounds like something that is going to be deemed a pain in the ass very quickly, but it will be hillarious while it lasts.
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Been there, done that and I agree. Having spent 15 years in the industry, I learned that it isn't worth the fight. Basic developer roles are, today, entry level positions. People that don't move up are despised for their "seniority" if they don't graduate to architecture or some other so-called more important role. Went that path, spent a few years running a consultancy for more experienced folks and learned that the experience actually made me want to leave programming all together. Sure, I'll still hack together a few things for fun and play with the latest trends in development, but I'm not doing that for my job anymore for two reasons. One, I don't want to deal with the kids, and two, once you get over the initial hump, it pays better to have that background and then get out! I'm not saying money is everything, but now I'm grown up, have a family and a kid to send to college so, the money sure helps. I am, however, giving back to the "community" by teaching my kid how to code like a professional and how NOT to be "one of those programmers".
Saddly I have to agree. While in those fields of wildflowers, the ideal humanity has nothing but love and respect for its fellow human, but as long as that ideal exists, countries will continue to need security organizations like the CIA to keep an eye on those that dno not share those ideals. Until the entire world unilaterally accepts one another and the common good, there is a need for a defensive stance and that stance cannot support the altruistic ideas that most of us would love to adopt.
All of that said, the EFF does an outstanding job working to hold non-defense organizations accountable to their conumers and the self imposed privacy rules that they claim to hold so near and dear. I just wish that they would pick their battles a bit better rather than trying to fight everyone at once.
I wonder how much Jay Z would be worth if his music wasn't completely designed to pander to his target audience's preferences? Seriously, this guy is mad about the commercial aspects of a company that helps the music industry to market their art to their core demographic? I mean come on... The only art that wasn't designed for people to enjoy is usually sitting in the garbage can unless someone happened to like it or make it "hip and trendy". Art in general is designed by the artist for the consumer.
Hell, our greatest and most famous works of art in history were commisioned!
It's always been about the money, except in a few very rare cases. None of these artists would enjoy their job if they weren't getting paid for it, so the argument that radio is using music as a platform for turning a profit (through advertising) isn't really an argument at all. They're all doing the same thing.
That's a really good point and I would have to agree. Letting grad students do research while they have no practical application of their yet inexperienced education is like letting a 10 year old try to drive a car just because he was able to read the manual. Giving them the task of reproducing experiments and prooving or disprooving their validity is an excellent way to get hands on experience without adding elements of risk to an already challenging field.
I suppose that's a key element to the issue this article is discussing. If only the standard methods are in the publication and some novel augmentation of a process is necessary to produce those results, there is missing data and it could not be reproduced. Too many people are anxious to publish simply because it is part of their job to do so, but if some novel component is being persued through patent or other non-disclosed intellectual property, the publication should probably be either post-poned or not submitted. It's an odd catch 22 for folks in this area of research. I tend to agree that publishing something incomplete, however, simply extends ignorance rather than contributing to the education of your peers.
If you spend several decades of your life simply trying to compute the amount of lithium in another galaxy, I am sorry for you, but to have all of that useless work proven wrong just makes me laugh a little. I am very interested to know what, if anything, this would have proved. Pretty sure this calculation isn't going to convert muslims to science and frankly it seems the only practical application.
All sarcasm aside, does anyone know what the hypothesis was designed to support or prove in the grander scheme?
As a chef that embraces modern technology, do you think that the 3D printed food technology is something you will have in your kitchen some day or is it just a fad?
I wonder if it took more than $48k in tax payer dollars to fund the two year man hunt to catch this dangerous criminal. (/sarcasm)
I think you missed the part about having been a CTO and Director in my post. Yes there's a difference beteen project management and holding a management position. My opinion comes from having done both. My position is that I belive project management to be a stepping stone to department management since managing people, projects, budgets and business expectations are components of both roles.
I agree. I have filled positions at the Director level and CTO level and have no degree. I have 12 years of IT experience having managed multi-million dollar IT projects. No one asks for a degree anymore lol. In all seriousness, the ability to function without being managed is paramount to the ability to manage others. The other critical requirement is that you understand the business, how to relate and convey information between IT and the business.
Basically, you need to be able to solve business problems with IT solutions, explain the issues and solutions to other management, maintain a solid budget, manage internal projects and work with IT people. I'm sure that in tech support you learned the business, but that was another company. Learn the business of your current company or the one where you want the management job. Talk to non-technical people and learn to appreciate the fact that IT exists to support business. The business is your customer to learn to talk to them and treat them as such. Project Management experience is a perfect stepping stone from the technical role to the management role. I used it 5 years ago to make my transition and it worked like magic. Find a good consulting job and over time you will learn the variety of personal and management skills needed to make the transition too.
A word of caution. If you are on this site, you probably keep up with new technology. Business hates new technology as the answer to everything, although it is often applicable. Being inventive and finding ways to leverage technology that you already own to solve a business problem is the #1 way to demonstrate your ability to be a good IT manager.
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the space station ISS. It's 5 year mission to do jack shit. To hang out and accomplish nothing important whatsoever. To boldly waste more money than any other country on the "team" ... (queue theme song)
Maybe Scotty can refit the space station in 5 years once Excelsior technology is ready to be integrated to make things interesting enough to make a full length Discovery film!!! Oh wait, our friend is gone... Someone go and get him. He's over by the Dyson's Sphere.
omg, I'm such a trek nerd someone help me
I agree. There should be a community list to call those companies back. The problem is that most are calling from call centers and when you call, you're just going to get a recording. The first part of the idea is good thought. A community list of numbers like this.
Why doesn't a company like Baracuda networks put together a call blocking system like they have for spamming URLs so that a community list can be linked to everyone's phone blocking system. It could then filter those calls to a recording that says "Your number has been blocked. If you believe this to be an error please mail a letter explaining the purpose of your call to....."
The obvious issue is that you can turn off caller id, but I would think that those calls could be routed to another message stating that this company requires calls to be identified before they are allowed.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/02/01/070201193 232.ooqqhaxc.html
Looks like ATHF isn't the only one to cause a bomb scare with their publicity stunts. LA police blew up a newspaper stand last year cause there was a device attached to play the MI III theme when someone opened the door. Seems to me that bomb squads need to get better training if they can't tell a stupid light or sound show from an actual bomb.... I have 0 electrical training and can tell you if that's a fucking light-brite or a wad of C4.
Mike, I'll bet you've never solved a problem before in your life. Rather than applying simple logic, you're just blaming everything involved. That's just dumb. There's no nice way to say it. If a product works with EVERY other system out there and only shows a symptom with ONE system, then 99.999% of the time, the problem is with the part that changed.
I totally disagree. I think that parents with children would flock to an IM service that worked against issues like these. The one thing that Windows XP Home got right is the user account control. Parents can easily set up kids accounts that cannot install software. If the parent knows that one IM service is better controling content and watching out for prowlers online, they would install that system. Parents tend to talk with other parents too and it would spread like wildfire. Schools, local police and other interested parties could also do great work to spread the word. If a parent is having some sort of sexual encounter online and wants to use something else to feel like it's more discreet then fine, but I seriously think that the first IM service to offer something like this would flourish.
I agree that this is more prevention than prosecution, but if that is the case, why aren't the IM companies more involved in the prevention side of things? There has to be more that they can do on their end rather than putting all of the responsiblity on the user. I'm a parent (granted of only a 4 month old) and I'll be taking extreme precautions when my son starts typing in 2-3 more months (haha) and I will be one of the parents that does take the responsibility on himself, but there are tons of irresponsible parents out there who's children still need to be protected. I would like to see something like this be done by the IM company, not that they are taking responsibilty, but that they are trying to help. AOL provides anti-virus, but they are not responsible for a virus that gets on your computer. It's a feature. They, MSN and others should have this sort of thing licensed and integrated.
There was an outstanding program put together by Dateline (NBC) with the police http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9878187/ I was shocked to see some of the people. Imigrants, truck drivers, ex and current military men... the list goes on. There seem to be people from all walks of life that are getting mixed up in this horrible problem. Watching them get caught and talk about it was shocking.
Yea, but that was about 10-15 years ago when they broke up the Bell company into the baby bells. Then again they're all right back together again now.... Guess that takes a something away from their previous success.
Many states require that both parties of a phone conversation be aware of the fact that the conversation is being recorded or another party is listening except in the case of a warrant. If this application is watching and recording conversations, will that be admissible as evidence in a case against an online predator or will it be inadmissible since only one party was aware. I'm all for stopping these disgusting predators, but if you're going to start a company around this concept, you might want to check the legality of its application.
The FCC seems to be spending less time ensuring a competitive market for communications and wasting more time monitoring and sending out fines to radio and TV stations for using "bad language." I for one think that it is high time this group had a complete makeover. The people that are running things don't seem to have a clue about technology and the emerging markets that are being exploited by their lack of attention. This trend stinks of payoffs and corporate meddling. I'm not making any accusations as I have nothing but the smell to prove this idea, but when a group is trying to help generate more competition and the FCC refuses to support them it makes me wonder what's hiding under the covers. I'm no conspiracy maniac, but there's no way to see the FCC's position in a positive light.
I was at one of my favorite electronics stores last week and walked in at about 11 am. There were about 60 PS3s half 60s and half 20s sitting there, but they were only selling them in the $1000 bundle with 5 games and a second controller. I didn't get it cause I don't see 5 games I'm that interested in. Oh that and I don't have a 1080p TV (damn Santa and all his reindeer) which is just about all they work properly on from what I hear.
Something that I learned early enough to make a difference, but late enough to lose momentum is that your next job depends on your current job. Here's what I mean. If you are making X then you can expect your next job to be at least x + .15x or a 15% increase. I would never leave a job for more than a 15% increase unless there were serious problems. Taking the Perl job sounds like a ton of fun, but remember than smaller companies often need longer hours. The side benefits are nice, but there are usually needs on the side too. If you take the smaller raise, you will probably find yourself still working towards that x + .66x income in 5 years. If you take the .NET job you will be looking for the salary of 1.66x + .15(1.66x) rather than 1.2x + .15(1.2x)
;-) and it gets old fast.
To take the math out of this you will be playing salary catch up for years and probably won't catch up for a long time if ever. I turned down a 60% raise 7 years ago and just caught up to that level last year. If I'd taken that money then, I would be much farther ahead right now.
Let me qualify this by stating that MONEY ISN'T EVERYTHING. I understand that, but I have a wife and a son and they aren't cheap.
If I were you and didn't have a huge preference between languages, I can play Half-Life at home thank you very much. Besides every time I play almost any game with co-workers they're a bunch of peon n00bs anyway
Money does mean something, otherwise we'd all be working on software projects and just giving it away... wait a second....
That works for me as long as they promise that the next Final Fantasy only takes 30 hours to beat. I mean, what about the hardcore gamers that will go 400 hours straight to finish the latest GranTurismo. I think they need to add a charging base for additional battery packs so that I can rotate battery packs during hardcore gaming sessions.... and another thing. If I'm playing against someone and their controller runs out of batteries, will they be stating there spinning in circles like players whose mice die in CounterStrike? That's always ALWAYS funny!
Eventually people will learn that their local retailer gets shipments on Tuesdays or something like that and you'll have a line outside the door every Tuesday morning to see if they got any in. That's a great marketing ploy since most retailers are pretty dead in the early hours.
I guess it's an easy way to find my phone when I loose it in the house. I can always re-sync the numbers from my PC. That is, unless you can't turn off the "stolen scream." If that's the case I promise you have at least 2 screaming phones every day standing in line for service at the local dealer because they thought the phone was stolen, but found it under the bed or something. What aout the moron that leaves their phone at the office. Everyone is quietly working and a cell phone that was left at work starts to scream... This sounds like something that is going to be deemed a pain in the ass very quickly, but it will be hillarious while it lasts.