I am also a pilot. Normal color perception is not required to pass a medical. I'm color blind, I commute to work in my cherokee and fly over 200 hours a year. I have been told that the FAA might restrict me to daytime only, but they haven't yet. It's a stupid rule, IMO and almost a fourth of my flight time is at night.
This all said, has anybody else wondered how the laser could illuminate a cockpit? I never see anything which is underneath my airplane. Perhaps from a neighboring mountain?
Your flat wrong about John Denver. He was flying a Long-EZ which won't qualify as a LSA. The Long-EZ is not a certificated aircraft but it does enjoy a large following. I personally worked on a project which successfully used Long-EZ as RPVs. They work just fine, even without a pilot.
Whatever happened to John Denver (see www.ntsa.gov) is his own problem and if anything just underscores that aviation is not the place for wishful thinking.
Nobody is making you fly in a ultralight or LSA. But you should learn something about it before being critical.
Have you actually had a inflight problem yet? Did you just panic and land of the first flat surface you could find? Or did you think about it a bit and press on?
Yes, I've had my moment of crises. And I flew home.
Lets make laws to go after the people who hire the spammers. They should be easier to find. Even if they are in China, you should be able to get a conviction and then stop their credit card processing or something else that really hurts.
Sun runs hot and cold on various things, enterprise management would be one. It's too bad all the various management initiatives (JDMK, Solstice, SunView, HostView, etc) never get any long term traction. It seems OpenView would be easy to displace (since it is a slow, heavy, brittle POS) but for some reason Sun won't dedicate the resources to field and sustain such a effort.
Unlike the UCD agent, which I install on all my boxes.
The CS-6400/E-10K was a damn fine box. I never heard of anybody complaining about unreliability. When my contract was up at Cray, I went to Wells Fargo and we put two E-10K's into production while I was there. I never noted the reliability problem you speak of.
In 14 years of contracting, I have only had one customer insist I use SGI hardware, and that customer was an investor in SGI. Even then, we had to do our development on Sun because the tools and database we needed were not yet available on SGI.
IMO, in biz, the only justification for a big server is databases. SGI doesn't have the I/O. My understanding is that IRIX also has problems staying in cache. Does IRIX allow for the system managment that a E10K does? i.e. the dynamic reconfiguration?
If your picking on the E10K and comparing it against similar SGI offerings at the time, your view of history is seriously skewed.
Your nuts. Maxim group paid low rates and would only work w/W-2 (not corp to corp). Maxim and AeroTek were "automatic delete from the answering machine" calls.
I've been contracting for 14 years and although most recruiters are slime (I call them pimps) there do exist some notable exceptions.
I am curious why anybody uses headhunters? From what I've seen, the pimps simply match keywords and then shotgun over the usual resumes. It's still on the hiring manager to select candidates and then perform interviews.
For this service, the pimps take 1/3 to 1/2 my hourly rates. Where was the value add?
Anyway, there are some good recruiters who actually attempt to understand your needs and do more than a buzzword match. They still take 1/3 to 1/2 my hourly rates, but at least I don't mind having lunch w/them.
For some reason, the decent recruiters don't stay in the job, they move on to real sales. Pity.
That is just stupid. You wanna put up w/all that just for a generic BS? When you come out, your still a butter bar. You still don't make decisions. Of course, if your looking for a military career then that would be the right track. But it's not the right place merely for a BS.
People, please read the sermon from brother psychosis. I personally did 12 years for Mother Navy, the last six years were exclusively in software development. The training is minimal, the job is weak. Contractors get all the real development work.
Sooo... I got out, took a BSCS, kept my clearance and came back as a contractor. Now I work on real problems and make some money.
Anyway, military experience and training is highly overrated. If you have what it takes to finish your BS, you should just do that.
Spouses, rug rats and home ownership are all serious destractions. This is why I feel real hackers should be castrated to avoid them. There is historical precedent (i.e. the operatic castrato).
You might think being an unwashed dedicated geek is enough to repel the opposite sex, but we all know plenty of counter examples. Nope. Castration is the only way to demonstrate that you are a dedicate uber geek.
You are so wrong. If you are smart enough to actually get a real CS degree and really do the work, then you are probably smart enough to do anything.
Work sucks by definition. It's not all bad, but you are paid to sit through a lot of unsavory parts as well as the interesting pieces.
If you agree that work sucks, then it only makes sense to be compensated for your pain. I personally prefer to be highly compensated for my pain. I've been selling my life in increments of 1/4 hour for over 20 years now. I want something to show for that.
My point here is that if CS delivers a quality career, then I'm all for it. And if CS does not deliver a quality career, then I'm going to go find one that does.
This isn't religion, this is work. I have airplanes to fly, boats to sail and family to support.
Put another way: "you are not your job". I hope you find some satisfaction, but work is the wrong place for personal enlightenment. (Unless your Dogbert).
It's the FAA who mandates that the crew check for these things. Not the carriers.
Just because someone on The Register gets in a good rant, doesn't make it true or useful.
I commute to work in my airplane, around 250 hours/year. I fly IFR when required and I have nice radios. I can always tell when I have left my cell phone on, because I can hear it switch cells (there are clicks in my intercom).
No, it didn't cause the airplane to crash. My point here is it did cause interference, although maybe not harmful interference.
Many of the comments here really make me feel sorry for the cabin crew. Could it be that some of you don't actually know everything?
NY Times, April 16, Page B1, "U.S. Inspectors Find No Forbidden Weapons At Iraqi Arms Plant"//the title gives it all away, but I'll make my point w/this paragraph
"But after a week of intensive work in which expectations of finding proof of unconventional weapons that Washington insists exists soared and were repeatedly deflated, the military experts said the survey had shown only how difficult it is likely to be to discover hard evidence of production of prohibited weapons without specific information from Iraqi scientists or military officers."
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"Body Of Secrets" and "The Puzzle Palace" are coffee table books. I'm happy for Bamford, and all A branchers everywhere, but these books cannot be your sole source of information. Unfortunately, not all of the involved parties are free to give their side of the story.
Ya, I have to agree w/this poster. It seems like a waste of time to be competent, since there is no way to cash in. Why spend time and money to keep up w/new tools if companies just hire the cheapest commodity, no matter the quality?
I don't feel "the US talent is embarassingly bad" so much as I feel the US management is embarassingly bad. Unable to articulate goals and requirements, unable to hold a steady course and unable to finish a project. And of course, they are unable to distinguish an engineer from the janitor.
I have to question the original poster: how the hell did you select the resumes of five morons? I might get one or two who have padded their resumes, but usually I can weed these out on the phone. By the time we get to the "in person" candidates, they are plausible candidates. What is wrong w/your process?
Ya, I've been waiting on GE as well. I don't want to just run my server room. I want to run my entire house. I live out in the sticks and when we don't have electricity, we stop flushing the toilets. The bids I got back for a solar farm were over $30K, and I would pay that for fuel cells and skip erecting a solar array.
I don't agree. Tools today are much better and cheaper. 20 some odd years ago, I was writing ALGOL on a Burroughs box. It was an awful way to earn a living.
The editor would take too long to explain and probably send me back to therapy. But each page of source code was sent to tape, the tape would advance and then you could get the next page. You could not go backwards so you had to plan your editing session by marking up a listing and then going by page number.
The compiler was full of holes. For example, "if (a+5 == 7)" did not evaluate the same as if "(7 == a+5)" (I dunno if that is the correct syntax, but my point is that constants on either side of a compare were not treated the same). This forced us to review the generated code (manually) to ensure the compiler was behaving properly. This was before optimizing compilers and with practice it wasn't too hard to follow the binary.
In this type of environment, you had to be "dedicated" but any little thing was such a huge struggle. We wasted a lot of time because you could not trust *anything*. Not the compiler, not the libraries (such as they were), not the hardware.
I think software development is much easier and predictable today. Well, it's much harder to blame the tools anyway.
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I am also a pilot. Normal color perception is not required to pass a medical. I'm color blind, I commute to work in my cherokee and fly over 200 hours a year. I have been told that the FAA might restrict me to daytime only, but they haven't yet. It's a stupid rule, IMO and almost a fourth of my flight time is at night.
This all said, has anybody else wondered how the laser could illuminate a cockpit? I never see anything which is underneath my airplane. Perhaps from a neighboring mountain?
Your flat wrong about John Denver. He was flying a Long-EZ which won't qualify as a LSA. The Long-EZ is not a certificated aircraft but it does enjoy a large following. I personally worked on a project which successfully used Long-EZ as RPVs. They work just fine, even without a pilot.
Whatever happened to John Denver (see www.ntsa.gov) is his own problem and if anything just underscores that aviation is not the place for wishful thinking.
Nobody is making you fly in a ultralight or LSA. But you should learn something about it before being critical.
Any landing which doesn't break anything is a good landing.
His judgement is fine.
Have you actually had a inflight problem yet? Did you just panic and land of the first flat surface you could find? Or did you think about it a bit and press on?
Yes, I've had my moment of crises. And I flew home.
Good list.
Lets make laws to go after the people who hire the spammers. They should be easier to find. Even if they are in China, you should be able to get a conviction and then stop their credit card processing or something else that really hurts.
Hi, Wes!
Sun runs hot and cold on various things, enterprise management would be one. It's too bad all the various management initiatives (JDMK, Solstice, SunView, HostView, etc) never get any long term traction. It seems OpenView would be easy to displace (since it is a slow, heavy, brittle POS) but for some reason Sun won't dedicate the resources to field and sustain such a effort.
Unlike the UCD agent, which I install on all my boxes.
Disclosure: I worked on the Super Dragon at Cray.
The CS-6400/E-10K was a damn fine box. I never heard of anybody complaining about unreliability. When my contract was up at Cray, I went to Wells Fargo and we put two E-10K's into production while I was there. I never noted the reliability problem you speak of.
In 14 years of contracting, I have only had one customer insist I use SGI hardware, and that customer was an investor in SGI. Even then, we had to do our development on Sun because the tools and database we needed were not yet available on SGI.
IMO, in biz, the only justification for a big server is databases. SGI doesn't have the I/O. My understanding is that IRIX also has problems staying in cache. Does IRIX allow for the system managment that a E10K does? i.e. the dynamic reconfiguration?
If your picking on the E10K and comparing it against similar SGI offerings at the time, your view of history is seriously skewed.
Shame how the market has treated SGI, though.
Your nuts. Maxim group paid low rates and would only work w/W-2 (not corp to corp). Maxim and AeroTek were "automatic delete from the answering machine" calls.
I've been contracting for 14 years and although most recruiters are slime (I call them pimps) there do exist some notable exceptions.
I am curious why anybody uses headhunters? From what I've seen, the pimps simply match keywords and then shotgun over the usual resumes. It's still on the hiring manager to select candidates and then perform interviews.
For this service, the pimps take 1/3 to 1/2 my hourly rates. Where was the value add?
Anyway, there are some good recruiters who actually attempt to understand your needs and do more than a buzzword match. They still take 1/3 to 1/2 my hourly rates, but at least I don't mind having lunch w/them.
For some reason, the decent recruiters don't stay in the job, they move on to real sales. Pity.
In a Burroughs environment.
I don't want to talk about it.
That is just stupid. You wanna put up w/all that just for a generic BS? When you come out, your still a butter bar. You still don't make decisions. Of course, if your looking for a military career then that would be the right track. But it's not the right place merely for a BS.
People, please read the sermon from brother psychosis. I personally did 12 years for Mother Navy, the last six years were exclusively in software development. The training is minimal, the job is weak. Contractors get all the real development work.
Sooo... I got out, took a BSCS, kept my clearance and came back as a contractor. Now I work on real problems and make some money.
Anyway, military experience and training is highly overrated. If you have what it takes to finish your BS, you should just do that.
I bought mine in 1987, w/the video adapter. Interesting for a few months... //de KQ6J
Spouses, rug rats and home ownership are all serious destractions. This is why I feel real hackers should be castrated to avoid them. There is historical precedent (i.e. the operatic castrato).
You might think being an unwashed dedicated geek is enough to repel the opposite sex, but we all know plenty of counter examples. Nope. Castration is the only way to demonstrate that you are a dedicate uber geek.
You first.
You are so wrong. If you are smart enough to actually get a real CS degree and really do the work, then you are probably smart enough to do anything.
Work sucks by definition. It's not all bad, but you are paid to sit through a lot of unsavory parts as well as the interesting pieces.
If you agree that work sucks, then it only makes sense to be compensated for your pain. I personally prefer to be highly compensated for my pain. I've been selling my life in increments of 1/4 hour for over 20 years now. I want something to show for that.
My point here is that if CS delivers a quality career, then I'm all for it. And if CS does not deliver a quality career, then I'm going to go find one that does.
This isn't religion, this is work. I have airplanes to fly, boats to sail and family to support.
Put another way: "you are not your job". I hope you find some satisfaction, but work is the wrong place for personal enlightenment. (Unless your Dogbert).
Bwahaha!! Curse you for beating me to the punch on this. If I could moderate you up, I would.
I'm a California transplanted Okie. It's not all earthquakes out here. Hell, Chico could be Oklahoma in many ways. Just ask my mule.
Amen. This is the voice of experience. "weakly typed, unchecked format that's responsible for 90% of J2EE project delays" Oh, ya.
It's the FAA who mandates that the crew check for these things. Not the carriers.
Just because someone on The Register gets in a good rant, doesn't make it true or useful.
I commute to work in my airplane, around 250 hours/year. I fly IFR when required and I have nice radios. I can always tell when I have left my cell phone on, because I can hear it switch cells (there are clicks in my intercom).
No, it didn't cause the airplane to crash. My point here is it did cause interference, although maybe not harmful interference.
Many of the comments here really make me feel sorry for the cabin crew. Could it be that some of you don't actually know everything?
NY Times, April 16, Page B1, "U.S. Inspectors Find No Forbidden Weapons At Iraqi Arms Plant" //the title gives it all away, but I'll make my point w/this paragraph
"But after a week of intensive work in which expectations of finding proof of unconventional weapons that Washington insists exists soared and were repeatedly deflated, the military experts said the survey had shown only how difficult it is likely to be to discover hard evidence of production of prohibited weapons without specific information from Iraqi scientists or military officers."
"Body Of Secrets" and "The Puzzle Palace" are coffee table books. I'm happy for Bamford, and all A branchers everywhere, but these books cannot be your sole source of information. Unfortunately, not all of the involved parties are free to give their side of the story.
Ya, I have to agree w/this poster. It seems like a waste of time to be competent, since there is no way to cash in. Why spend time and money to keep up w/new tools if companies just hire the cheapest commodity, no matter the quality?
I don't feel "the US talent is embarassingly bad" so much as I feel the US management is embarassingly bad. Unable to articulate goals and requirements, unable to hold a steady course and unable to finish a project. And of course, they are unable to distinguish an engineer from the janitor.
I have to question the original poster: how the hell did you select the resumes of five morons? I might get one or two who have padded their resumes, but usually I can weed these out on the phone. By the time we get to the "in person" candidates, they are plausible candidates. What is wrong w/your process?
Ya, I've been waiting on GE as well. I don't want to just run my server room. I want to run my entire house. I live out in the sticks and when we don't have electricity, we stop flushing the toilets. The bids I got back for a solar farm were over $30K, and I would pay that for fuel cells and skip erecting a solar array.
I don't agree. Tools today are much better and cheaper. 20 some odd years ago, I was writing ALGOL on a Burroughs box. It was an awful way to earn a living.
The editor would take too long to explain and probably send me back to therapy. But each page of source code was sent to tape, the tape would advance and then you could get the next page. You could not go backwards so you had to plan your editing session by marking up a listing and then going by page number.
The compiler was full of holes. For example, "if (a+5 == 7)" did not evaluate the same as if "(7 == a+5)" (I dunno if that is the correct syntax, but my point is that constants on either side of a compare were not treated the same). This forced us to review the generated code (manually) to ensure the compiler was behaving properly. This was before optimizing compilers and with practice it wasn't too hard to follow the binary.
In this type of environment, you had to be "dedicated" but any little thing was such a huge struggle. We wasted a lot of time because you
could not trust *anything*. Not the compiler, not the libraries (such as they were), not the hardware.
I think software development is much easier and predictable today. Well, it's much harder to blame the tools anyway.