> I taught myself enough coding and sql to get an entry level job > years ago, worked my butt off, and have done just fine.
Glad it worked out for you, but could a kid today break into the biz that way? There's been tragic diploma/certification inflation over the last 10 years.
If you applied for a bunch of jobs tomorrow, some pinhead would ignore your experience and ask why you don't have formal computer credentials.
I'm on the East coast of Canada, so I'm even more southerly than most of the populated areas.
Hours of daylight for today:
Halifax ~11 hours Helsinki ~10 hours Miami ~12.5 hours
As in Finland, winter days are short, and winter is when we need the energy.
Large-scale solar panels might not be completely impossible, but in practice it's easier to flood yet another vast wilderness.
Large-scale passive solar OTOH could make a huge difference in heating costs.
If I was king for a day I'd change the building code to require better insulation/windows/etc. I'd force new houses to have big windows/skylights facing south, instead of whatever random direction the street is running.
> It is likely that we will see nations like Denmark and Canada, > which have put significant resources towards wind, hydro, > solar, tidal, and other renewable energy sources
Hmm, I'm Canadian and I can't think of any large-scale wind or tidal energy projects here. The idea of large-scale solar power at this latitude is pretty funny, though.
There's a lot of hydro energy here, only because we've got lots of trackless wilderness to flood.
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...the author shall:
12. Say what he is proposing to say, not merely come near it. 13. Use the right word, not its second cousin. 14. Eschew surplusage. 15. Not omit necessary details. 16. Avoid slovenliness of form. 17. Use good grammar. 18. Employ a simple and straightforward style.
I had several student jobs with the government, and when I got my first Fortune 500 job I was amazed that every desk had it's own stapler. The luxury!!!
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> I taught myself enough coding and sql to get an entry level job
> years ago, worked my butt off, and have done just fine.
Glad it worked out for you, but could a kid today break into the biz that way? There's been tragic diploma/certification inflation over the last 10 years.
If you applied for a bunch of jobs tomorrow, some pinhead would ignore your experience and ask why you don't have formal computer credentials.
I'm on the East coast of Canada, so I'm even more southerly than most of the populated areas.
Hours of daylight for today:
Halifax ~11 hours
Helsinki ~10 hours
Miami ~12.5 hours
As in Finland, winter days are short, and winter is when we need the energy.
Large-scale solar panels might not be completely impossible, but in practice it's easier to flood yet another vast wilderness.
Large-scale passive solar OTOH could make a huge difference in heating costs.
If I was king for a day I'd change the building code to require better insulation/windows/etc. I'd force new houses to have big windows/skylights facing south, instead of whatever random direction the street is running.
> It is likely that we will see nations like Denmark and Canada,
> which have put significant resources towards wind, hydro,
> solar, tidal, and other renewable energy sources
Hmm, I'm Canadian and I can't think of any large-scale wind or tidal energy projects here. The idea of large-scale solar power at this latitude is pretty funny, though.
There's a lot of hydro energy here, only because we've got lots of trackless wilderness to flood.
> Post the URL and we'll see.
7 66857
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=178030&cid=14
> Get a $100 NSLU2 and wipe its brain.
:)
Heh, but the MMX was free
> no worries that you'll come home and discover that your power supply has started a fire.
I've literally never heard of that happening.
My puny DSL bandwidth will more than protect my puny web server.
d g/
233MHz is a lot of horsepower if you're not running a GUI. Back in the day, ftp.cdrom.com pushed 800GB/day with a single Pentium Pro 200.
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9904/08/cdrom.i
> Running mail at home is a waste of my time. It can be done, but
> you get nothing but hassle out of it
By mail I mean an IMAP server, so my 2 desktop boxes can get mail at any time, whatever OS they're booting.
> Some of them do things you can't exactly consolidate though...
100% agree, but file/print/web/backup require very little horsepower.
> quad processor PIII Xeon web server+other general duties stuff
My file/mail/web/backup server is a Pentium 233 MMX. It's ridiculously overpowered for what it does.
load averages: 0.10, 0.09, 0.08
> I use Win2k and I still don't see a feature I am missing.
Me too, but once Vista is released I expect we'll be missing new patches and service packs.
Yeah, it drove me to defragment my swapfile. Sheesh.
:)
Hopefully the next patch will improve things even more.
The incredibly long load times may be intentionally designed to keep people from cheating
Civ 4 has kept me too busy to be amazed...
A (relatively) simple story might be an *asset* when making a movie.
Let me know when they get a robot piloted by a gelatinous cube or a gibbering mouther.
I had several student jobs with the government, and when I got my first Fortune 500 job I was amazed that every desk had it's own stapler. The luxury!!!
> If the fourth chapter concentrated on apt for Debian systems
Maybe you should re-read the book and pay more attention this time?
> If the consequences of decisions aren't ultimately borne by the
> executives who make them, organisations will never operate
> efficiently.
Yikes.
What's the longest amount of time you've ever taken to fiddle a Windows back to health?
What's your hourly rate?
There is a point where FORMAT C: is the only sensible fix.
I suppose it depends on the company, you're more flexible than most.
As another poster mentions, many places have several people giving interviews, it's hard to get them all together outside office hours.
> Are potential employers typically sensitive to the fact that I
> may not be able to interview during the week or during standard
> work hours?
No.
> Also, will having left here after a year seem like a real black
> mark on my resume?
No.
> Well, farming the corn necessary to fuel the US will need far
> more land than there is in the US
Source?
I happen to agree with you, but that kind of rhetoric loses arguments instead of winning them.
> I'm sure it wasn't that bad when the NAZIs started forcing the
> Jews to wear stars, either.
Debating tip for the day - gratuitous Nazi references make you look like a raving lunatic.
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