The "problem" with those shows is that you can take them either way. I tend to regard those shows to have a social criticism embedded in pretty much each show. However, many people can't see that and just regard it as stupid shows.
Intelligence is in the eye of the beholder.;-)
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I wrote a review of it yesterday: here. It has quite a few problems, it's a fun and nice machine, but it doesn't live up to the hype.
Still, I have to see it to believe it. The current generation of SUVs will inevitable end up in the hands of young drivers. Those will be even less aware of the extra dangers a SUV presents while being in traffic. The SUV craze will have a significant impact for
the years to come.
That's bullcrap and you know it. I played Space Quest 1 back in the day with a English-Dutch dictionary. I pretty much *learned* English by playing Sierra Quest games.
I live in a country where the main languages are german and french. I buy my games online in the UK. I do not want games translated. I want them in English and no, English is not my mother tongue.
My typical day is: wake up, shower, go to work, be at work 8h (I don't go out for lunch), go back home, cook, eat, relax, sleep. That adds up to 2 places where I'll be, and anywhere on the highway to work. Add in grocery shopping in one of the two nearby supermarkets and you pretty much know where I'll be on any given day Monday to Friday.
On weekends it might be a bit more complex because I go to the recycling centre, eventually visit my parents or my wifes parents, go to a restaurant, the movies, but even then.... What is it going to add up to? A dozen places?
This only proves that we're routine-animals. That's all....
Actually, I'm not on a corporate network and I block every port except the few I really use. That should be the golden standard. At my current client, I just said, "Hey I need port 22 open please". I got it withing 2 minutes and you do know what that means, don't you?
I am frankly more paranoid on my personal network that any network I've been on professionally.
A P-IV 2.6GHz here. Granted it now has 2Gig RAM. The machine was bought in 2003. It works wonderfully and I don't see a single reason to replace it. That's a big problem for both Microsoft and OEMs.
I would have recommended HSQL, but you don't want Java. Frankly, usually, when we're talking databases I won't say "use a spreadsheet", but with 10 fields, you might as well use a spreadsheet. Of course OpenOffice.org Base is out, because it uses HSQL.
Something like CSQL might fit, but I have no experience with it.
From Encarta: Furthermore, the physical size of a nuclear bomb was drastically reduced, permitting the development of nuclear artillery shells and small missiles that can be fired from portable launchers in the field.
Well, it takes up space on my machine. Also, I'm pretty strict on these things: if a website requires IE, then I will not give it my business. It's that simple. Are you sure Steam uses IE? When I installed it on wine on Debian, it wanted the gecko engine which really isn't IE at all.
Also, upgrades of browsers really tend to "take over" the machine. I set Firefox default, and I like it that way. IE7 is surely going to set itself back to default browser and as such I'll have to revert that. Thanks, but no thanks.
Have you ever considered that there are XP users that use Firefox and don't see a need to upgrade to IE7 because they don't use IE6. I have IE6 on my XP SP2 systems and see no reason to upgrade to IE7. I don't use it.
I'm no Windows apologist, but a properly maintained Windows XP installation won't ever need a reinstall. I have XP installations running installed when SP2 came out (that's in 2004), and they still run strong. Of course, it involves running users as non-admin, using Firefox instead of IE and Thunderbird instead of Outlook.... However, a competent admin can and will run XP without ever needing to reinstall it.
No, but you can't expect a new employer to hire you as a senior sysadmin when your resume experience isn't sysadmin experience.
No, I cannot. I do realise that. Alas, I made some poor career choices in the past. I became a teacher (which is a high paying job where I live, odd country, I know) and I had to stop. It just wasn't for me, for multiple reasons. To get back into IT, I had to take the usual boring programming job and a full 1000€ net paycut. Taking another paycut in that category is not ever going through with the wife. Besides, another such paycut would bring me to the level of a bus driver (my brother is one, I know: for a low-education job it is very well paid). I'd rather be a bus driver then;-)
As said, poor career choices....:-( I pretty much dug my own grave.
I see the difference. Oh, and I did love programming when I was younger, but I didn't program business applications. I programmed the things that I wanted. That's the main difference, and as such you are of course 100% right.
You can always break out of a niche, but you can't expect to make a lateral move
Doesn't that essentially mean you'll be stuck your whole life in doing what you did when you started working? Sure, I might become a C programmer instead, but it's not exactly all that different. (As a matter of fact, that's what I did the last few months. C instead of Java. 't was fun to keep track of pointers once again. It was at least "a change".)
Basically, if you want to make a change, keep your eyes open. There is always something.
I watch around, but I really don't have much hopes left....
if you can do something like IT then you're suited for a lot of other work as well
Oh, yes? Like what? I'm a bit stuck on these 2586 square km that they call a country. I can't move. My wifes degree only counts here, and with that degree she makes way more that I do in IT and it's a government job on top of that. Sure, I can go work in a warehouse for the minimum wage.... My wife's gonna love it when I say "Honey, from now on I'll be earning 1/3 of what I earned before".
I admit, it's a special situation....
It's also worthwhile to just look for a different IT job. IT is a huge field
It is a huge field... I've been mainly a Java programmer (yeah, I know, bad choice) for the last 10 years. I'd love to switch over to system administration. To have a change, you know. However, for some odd reason, employers do not want a Java programmer to become a sysadmin. I've got a frigging computer science degree! I didn't do "Learn Java in 21 days". It's not as if I don't have any experience in sysadminning, but that experience is outside the professional scope. They simply don't want to hear of it.
I heard this is less of a problem in the US and the UK, but in continental Europe you took a direction, you stay in that direction. I'll die a frustrated Java programmer... I already know it now.:-(
True.... but it also cost an insane amount of money to get an MBA while being employed. Back when I graduated, my dad told me that I should get an MBA in full time University. It would only be one year and the expenses were similar to 1 year of my computer science classes. I was, however, sick and tired of commuting to University. Anyway, a friend of mine did his MBA that way.
I now regret that move (no surprise there!), and looked if I could get an MBA at a local University in evening courses. The whole thing costs a whopping 35000€!!! That might sound like nothing to US people, but with that I did my full computer science studies. For someone with a family and/or saving for a house to have a family in the future, those are expenses are out of the question.
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The "problem" with those shows is that you can take them either way. I tend to regard those shows to have a social criticism embedded in pretty much each show. However, many people can't see that and just regard it as stupid shows.
Intelligence is in the eye of the beholder. ;-)
I wrote a review of it yesterday: here. It has quite a few problems, it's a fun and nice machine, but it doesn't live up to the hype.
Still, I have to see it to believe it. The current generation of SUVs will inevitable end up in the hands of young drivers. Those will be even less aware of the extra dangers a SUV presents while being in traffic. The SUV craze will have a significant impact for the years to come.
I urge anyone who owns an SUV and/or considers buying one to read "Big And Bad" by Malcolm Gladwel.
That's bullcrap and you know it. I played Space Quest 1 back in the day with a English-Dutch dictionary. I pretty much *learned* English by playing Sierra Quest games.
They don't? I must have been dreaming when my father in law showed off his iPhone today.... (I live in the EU, just in case you wonder...)
I live in a country where the main languages are german and french. I buy my games online in the UK. I do not want games translated. I want them in English and no, English is not my mother tongue.
You have a very disturbing vision on women.
My typical day is: wake up, shower, go to work, be at work 8h (I don't go out for lunch), go back home, cook, eat, relax, sleep. That adds up to 2 places where I'll be, and anywhere on the highway to work. Add in grocery shopping in one of the two nearby supermarkets and you pretty much know where I'll be on any given day Monday to Friday.
On weekends it might be a bit more complex because I go to the recycling centre, eventually visit my parents or my wifes parents, go to a restaurant, the movies, but even then.... What is it going to add up to? A dozen places?
This only proves that we're routine-animals. That's all....
Actually, I'm not on a corporate network and I block every port except the few I really use. That should be the golden standard. At my current client, I just said, "Hey I need port 22 open please". I got it withing 2 minutes and you do know what that means, don't you?
I am frankly more paranoid on my personal network that any network I've been on professionally.
A P-IV 2.6GHz here. Granted it now has 2Gig RAM. The machine was bought in 2003. It works wonderfully and I don't see a single reason to replace it. That's a big problem for both Microsoft and OEMs.
Worked fine with both accounts I have. Firefox 2.0.0.11 on Windows XP SP2.
Euuuuh.... Because I didn't know there was a successor :-D
I would have recommended HSQL, but you don't want Java. Frankly, usually, when we're talking databases I won't say "use a spreadsheet", but with 10 fields, you might as well use a spreadsheet. Of course OpenOffice.org Base is out, because it uses HSQL.
Something like CSQL might fit, but I have no experience with it.
From Encarta: Furthermore, the physical size of a nuclear bomb was drastically reduced, permitting the development of nuclear artillery shells and small missiles that can be fired from portable launchers in the field.
You draw your own conclusions....
Well, it takes up space on my machine. Also, I'm pretty strict on these things: if a website requires IE, then I will not give it my business. It's that simple. Are you sure Steam uses IE? When I installed it on wine on Debian, it wanted the gecko engine which really isn't IE at all.
Also, upgrades of browsers really tend to "take over" the machine. I set Firefox default, and I like it that way. IE7 is surely going to set itself back to default browser and as such I'll have to revert that. Thanks, but no thanks.
Have you ever considered that there are XP users that use Firefox and don't see a need to upgrade to IE7 because they don't use IE6. I have IE6 on my XP SP2 systems and see no reason to upgrade to IE7. I don't use it.
I'm no Windows apologist, but a properly maintained Windows XP installation won't ever need a reinstall. I have XP installations running installed when SP2 came out (that's in 2004), and they still run strong. Of course, it involves running users as non-admin, using Firefox instead of IE and Thunderbird instead of Outlook.... However, a competent admin can and will run XP without ever needing to reinstall it.
Wireless support, Remote Desktop and Fast User Switching. If it weren't for those, I'd be using W2k instead of XP. W2k is much much lighter....
The Asus EEE PC ;-) Oh, come on, that was too easy.
No, I cannot. I do realise that. Alas, I made some poor career choices in the past. I became a teacher (which is a high paying job where I live, odd country, I know) and I had to stop. It just wasn't for me, for multiple reasons. To get back into IT, I had to take the usual boring programming job and a full 1000€ net paycut. Taking another paycut in that category is not ever going through with the wife. Besides, another such paycut would bring me to the level of a bus driver (my brother is one, I know: for a low-education job it is very well paid). I'd rather be a bus driver then ;-)
As said, poor career choices.... :-( I pretty much dug my own grave.
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I see the difference. Oh, and I did love programming when I was younger, but I didn't program business applications. I programmed the things that I wanted. That's the main difference, and as such you are of course 100% right.
Doesn't that essentially mean you'll be stuck your whole life in doing what you did when you started working? Sure, I might become a C programmer instead, but it's not exactly all that different. (As a matter of fact, that's what I did the last few months. C instead of Java. 't was fun to keep track of pointers once again. It was at least "a change".)
I watch around, but I really don't have much hopes left....
Over 35? I'm not yet 32 and feel like him!!!!
Oh, yes? Like what? I'm a bit stuck on these 2586 square km that they call a country. I can't move. My wifes degree only counts here, and with that degree she makes way more that I do in IT and it's a government job on top of that. Sure, I can go work in a warehouse for the minimum wage.... My wife's gonna love it when I say "Honey, from now on I'll be earning 1/3 of what I earned before".
I admit, it's a special situation....
It is a huge field... I've been mainly a Java programmer (yeah, I know, bad choice) for the last 10 years. I'd love to switch over to system administration. To have a change, you know. However, for some odd reason, employers do not want a Java programmer to become a sysadmin. I've got a frigging computer science degree! I didn't do "Learn Java in 21 days". It's not as if I don't have any experience in sysadminning, but that experience is outside the professional scope. They simply don't want to hear of it.
I heard this is less of a problem in the US and the UK, but in continental Europe you took a direction, you stay in that direction. I'll die a frustrated Java programmer... I already know it now. :-(
True.... but it also cost an insane amount of money to get an MBA while being employed. Back when I graduated, my dad told me that I should get an MBA in full time University. It would only be one year and the expenses were similar to 1 year of my computer science classes. I was, however, sick and tired of commuting to University. Anyway, a friend of mine did his MBA that way.
I now regret that move (no surprise there!), and looked if I could get an MBA at a local University in evening courses. The whole thing costs a whopping 35000€!!! That might sound like nothing to US people, but with that I did my full computer science studies. For someone with a family and/or saving for a house to have a family in the future, those are expenses are out of the question.