I think an employee is more valuable if they use their own initiative and learn what is needed on their own. Nine out of ten times someone who learns something with their own drive will have much more passion for it and will perform much better.
Hrm. The new machine in a machine shop vice programming languages in a programming shop is a bit tough. My argument here is that machinists probably don't have available to them a great number of resources for learning how to use a new machine other than the company that employs them. A programmer on the other hand has a great many resources at their disposal with which to train.
I guess the problem that arises from company paid training is that people take the training and leave the company fairly often.
Personally I think that you are responsible for your own skills, not the company you work for. They pay you to provide a skill or trade, not pay you to better your skills. I could understand that if, say, up front they offer you $68,000 annually -OR- $60,000 annually plus $5000 in on company time training, but I don't think its fair to the employers to have to pay you to learn how to do your job.
If you're really worried about training and can't find enough time on your own to get better at your profession, perhaps its time to look at another line of work.
Not to plug an URL, but I just finished working on this project at www.2027.org. Some of the artwork created by the members there, as well as the sites they often link too, contain some of the best design work I have ever seen. Completely new intuitive user interfaces and incredible ways of conveying messages. I'd highly recommend delving into that scene for online media exposure.
The worst part about this (besides Earthlink's commercials) is a while back I stuck an Earthlink CD in my machine because I needed a new installation of IE and my connection was slow. I went to the bathroom and by the time I came back, autorun had kindly installed the Earthlink version of IE, annoying icon and all, on my machine. I remember a time when installations used to prompt users, not assimulate them.
For reading/. every five minutes I find it strange that this ask slashdotter didn't know that this question is asked (and posted) at least twice a month.
But if you ask me, a college degree isn't worth too much in the computer/tech fields unless you're [1] working for a faceless omnicorp (i.e. Microsoft) or [2] you're going into R&D under a University license/grant. Of course if you don't know anything about computers then college or tech school is probably the way to go; if you know what you're doing then its really an unnecessary step.
I nuked my server with rpm -Uvh --nodep --force with libc6 and the 2.2 kernel. Oops. Maybe I should play around with apt-get... or is mv //dev/null a better solution for me.
The beautiful thing of this is that you have to trade power for ease of use. That's just the way things work. Once you try to incorporate ease of use with power, you not only lose power, but you become more error prone (reference: run Windows on your box for any length of time).
So you build a platform that increasingly requires less and less experimentation and knowledge to improve ease of use. That's great! The ditch diggers of the 21st century is going to be Visual Basic and.NET programmers. The easier something is, the easier the role is to fulfill, and the lower the skill requirement.
I'm currently active duty in the Marine Corps and work IT (4067 - programmer, ADA to be exact). Its done nothing for me really on the IT side of the house except shelter me from the private market for the last three years enabling me to learn whatever I want as opposed to working late for overtime (and thus less time to learn).
I doubt that being in the reserves would adversely effect your abilities to perform your job but I'd imagine it'd be an annoyance. Its a good experience though and I'd recommend it to anyone who needs some change in their life or has problems staying financially stable or organized.
I always thought vapor was a reference to something that is currently nonexistant and may never come to be. That's how I've always used it anyway. Looks to me like all these interfaces are in some form of beta stages.
.NET is really nice too. Very slow though... 256 MBs of RAM recommended.
We've been using the Cisco Aironet gear for relaying data for the Marine Corps Marathon for the last two years. Cables are not an option when you're working with 21,000+ people in a park. The Aironet gear is relatively expensive (much cheaper before Cisco acquired Aironet), very easy to setup, and very powerful (11 Mbps). For distances up to 300 feet you really just need a "root" bridge and satellite bridges; they come with very small (6" antennas). I got one of those tiny antennas connecting my network at a distance of over 400 feet in the wide open. You can always get larger yogi, omnidirectional, or satellite dishes to broadcast up to miles and miles away. Oh yeah, you can encrypt the data as well.
I'm in the military and I'm not stationed in my home state so to vote I have to do it via absentee ballot.
When I went to get my absentee ballot, I was pointed to a website with a PDF file. I downloaded the file and attempted to print it to fill it out but got a PostScript error so I tried other printers, all of them gave PostScript errors.
Now I know I could have gone to the DMV and gotten an absentee ballot there or done a number of things, but the fact that the federal government can't get things together enough to provide people with a form that works was discouraging enough for me not to vote.
I've been saying for some time that Netscape does not support the HTML 4.01 DTD correctly and does not support CSS fully either. Its such a headache trying to get compatability across browsers... whenever I do a prototype I do it for MSIE only and tell my users to visit the prototype only with MSIE. It takes so long to put the hacks into a page so Netscape will display it correctly I don't even think its worth it anymore.
Yeah, the article might be just about advertising, but QNX is not a BeOS. After using it for some time, I can readily see why QNX would be the intelligent choice for embedded systems. Keep BSD on the big servers, Linux on home and small business servers and put QNX on all my bluetooth devices and I will be a happy man.
I broke open my laptop last night and found some interesting stuff... cheese Chex Mix among the most dominant.
I have to add, though, that the IBM keyboards from 1984 that click, especially the black ones, rock. They even have a modular attachment that allow you to go from PS/2 to the older larger size (forgot the name) without a converter. God clickity keyboards so rock. No windows button either... $3 at any good computer ma & pops!
Well we're obviously not paying as much heed to individual rights anymore compared to the business profit. Human rights or stocks... looks like human rights are losing.
So what's this have to do with anything? Obviously, as demonstrated by the RIAA, the MPAA and various other conglomerates and companies, the real power of this country is in business, not government.
Sure, government allots the tax dollars and makes the end decisions, but the truth is he who has more money always wins in court. Corporations will always have more money than an individual and therefore will always win in trial. These trials help establish new laws and ultimately determine what governs us. We're not governed by the Constitution anymore and its as plain as day.
So what is this new form of goverment? Its not a democracy and its not communism. Its capitalism pushed to the extreme: Corporatism.
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I think an employee is more valuable if they use their own initiative and learn what is needed on their own. Nine out of ten times someone who learns something with their own drive will have much more passion for it and will perform much better. Hrm. The new machine in a machine shop vice programming languages in a programming shop is a bit tough. My argument here is that machinists probably don't have available to them a great number of resources for learning how to use a new machine other than the company that employs them. A programmer on the other hand has a great many resources at their disposal with which to train. I guess the problem that arises from company paid training is that people take the training and leave the company fairly often.
Personally I think that you are responsible for your own skills, not the company you work for. They pay you to provide a skill or trade, not pay you to better your skills. I could understand that if, say, up front they offer you $68,000 annually -OR- $60,000 annually plus $5000 in on company time training, but I don't think its fair to the employers to have to pay you to learn how to do your job.
If you're really worried about training and can't find enough time on your own to get better at your profession, perhaps its time to look at another line of work.
Worst movie... ever.
I think the windows command he is referring to is either CSVDE or LDIFDE to do a bulk import. Run these from the command line to get help.
I just ported LZip over to Win32 and used it on my system files... man am I seeing a true performance hike! This utility is great!
I'm going to LZip the firmware instructions on my SCSI card and GeForce accelerator next... stay tuned.
Not to plug an URL, but I just finished working on this project at www.2027.org. Some of the artwork created by the members there, as well as the sites they often link too, contain some of the best design work I have ever seen. Completely new intuitive user interfaces and incredible ways of conveying messages. I'd highly recommend delving into that scene for online media exposure.
The worst part about this (besides Earthlink's commercials) is a while back I stuck an Earthlink CD in my machine because I needed a new installation of IE and my connection was slow. I went to the bathroom and by the time I came back, autorun had kindly installed the Earthlink version of IE, annoying icon and all, on my machine. I remember a time when installations used to prompt users, not assimulate them.
Boy do I miss BBSes and Telemate.
For reading /. every five minutes I find it strange that this ask slashdotter didn't know that this question is asked (and posted) at least twice a month.
But if you ask me, a college degree isn't worth too much in the computer/tech fields unless you're [1] working for a faceless omnicorp (i.e. Microsoft) or [2] you're going into R&D under a University license/grant. Of course if you don't know anything about computers then college or tech school is probably the way to go; if you know what you're doing then its really an unnecessary step.
I nuked my server with rpm -Uvh --nodep --force with libc6 and the 2.2 kernel. Oops. Maybe I should play around with apt-get... or is mv / /dev/null a better solution for me.
The beautiful thing of this is that you have to trade power for ease of use. That's just the way things work. Once you try to incorporate ease of use with power, you not only lose power, but you become more error prone (reference: run Windows on your box for any length of time).
.NET programmers. The easier something is, the easier the role is to fulfill, and the lower the skill requirement.
So you build a platform that increasingly requires less and less experimentation and knowledge to improve ease of use. That's great! The ditch diggers of the 21st century is going to be Visual Basic and
- Anubis
I'm currently active duty in the Marine Corps and work IT (4067 - programmer, ADA to be exact). Its done nothing for me really on the IT side of the house except shelter me from the private market for the last three years enabling me to learn whatever I want as opposed to working late for overtime (and thus less time to learn).
I doubt that being in the reserves would adversely effect your abilities to perform your job but I'd imagine it'd be an annoyance. Its a good experience though and I'd recommend it to anyone who needs some change in their life or has problems staying financially stable or organized.
Wow. That's all I have to say.
Surely I'm not the first, but I'll add to the masses: give them the latest hardware and they'll write device drivers for it.
It affects me. I have only PCI and two video cards... oh wait... I couldn't stick a P4 in my AMD-based motherboard anyways.
I always thought vapor was a reference to something that is currently nonexistant and may never come to be. That's how I've always used it anyway. Looks to me like all these interfaces are in some form of beta stages.
.NET is really nice too. Very slow though... 256 MBs of RAM recommended.
We've been using the Cisco Aironet gear for relaying data for the Marine Corps Marathon for the last two years. Cables are not an option when you're working with 21,000+ people in a park. The Aironet gear is relatively expensive (much cheaper before Cisco acquired Aironet), very easy to setup, and very powerful (11 Mbps). For distances up to 300 feet you really just need a "root" bridge and satellite bridges; they come with very small (6" antennas). I got one of those tiny antennas connecting my network at a distance of over 400 feet in the wide open. You can always get larger yogi, omnidirectional, or satellite dishes to broadcast up to miles and miles away. Oh yeah, you can encrypt the data as well.
I'm in the military and I'm not stationed in my home state so to vote I have to do it via absentee ballot.
When I went to get my absentee ballot, I was pointed to a website with a PDF file. I downloaded the file and attempted to print it to fill it out but got a PostScript error so I tried other printers, all of them gave PostScript errors.
Now I know I could have gone to the DMV and gotten an absentee ballot there or done a number of things, but the fact that the federal government can't get things together enough to provide people with a form that works was discouraging enough for me not to vote.
I would've voted for Nader though.
I've been saying for some time that Netscape does not support the HTML 4.01 DTD correctly and does not support CSS fully either. Its such a headache trying to get compatability across browsers... whenever I do a prototype I do it for MSIE only and tell my users to visit the prototype only with MSIE. It takes so long to put the hacks into a page so Netscape will display it correctly I don't even think its worth it anymore.
I'm sure there's a few people out there who read 2600. You'll find similiar stories of injustice in the letters section, even before Columbine.
Its unfortunate that the smarter you are, the worse off you are in a place that should be emphasizing academics.
Yeah, the article might be just about advertising, but QNX is not a BeOS. After using it for some time, I can readily see why QNX would be the intelligent choice for embedded systems. Keep BSD on the big servers, Linux on home and small business servers and put QNX on all my bluetooth devices and I will be a happy man.
I swear to god this article was posted not too long ago on Slashdot. I distinctly remember reading about 128 Marios dancing around.
-- Anubis
I broke open my laptop last night and found some interesting stuff... cheese Chex Mix among the most dominant.
I have to add, though, that the IBM keyboards from 1984 that click, especially the black ones, rock. They even have a modular attachment that allow you to go from PS/2 to the older larger size (forgot the name) without a converter. God clickity keyboards so rock. No windows button either... $3 at any good computer ma & pops!
-- Anubis
Well we're obviously not paying as much heed to individual rights anymore compared to the business profit. Human rights or stocks... looks like human rights are losing.
So what's this have to do with anything? Obviously, as demonstrated by the RIAA, the MPAA and various other conglomerates and companies, the real power of this country is in business, not government.
Sure, government allots the tax dollars and makes the end decisions, but the truth is he who has more money always wins in court. Corporations will always have more money than an individual and therefore will always win in trial. These trials help establish new laws and ultimately determine what governs us. We're not governed by the Constitution anymore and its as plain as day.
So what is this new form of goverment? Its not a democracy and its not communism. Its capitalism pushed to the extreme: Corporatism.
-- Anubis
I'm going to patent the English language and the color blue. Anyone else want to help?
-- Anubis
Windows users could just go to
http://www.davecentral.com/12666.html
and download the VB program (source code incl.) to decypher the data.
-- Anubis