Then move somewhere else lol. Or develop more skill sets (reading a book that you retain some of sometimes puts you slightly above people that get paid for that skill basis). Or... hard line you income and don't take jobs you won't be satisfied with, or... if you 're the type of people who can work and look for work... then you've got something I don't, so do it.
References: Countless recruiters calling on a daily basis with relevant and irrelevant job offers.
Biggest difference probably is how you market yourself, it's not that they're necessarily smarter, it MAY be that they're more up to date of current best practices / patterns... I've met some rather high ranking corporate IT people who had me wondering how they're allowed anywhere near a computer.
So are you, a lot of people come from MS Office backgrounds, I've gotten questions before: how do you do this, I had it set up this way and that... in MS Office, deploying open source solutions risk mainly lies in this, a bunch of disgruntled users who can't do things the way they liked to in MS Office. For a new business with a small closed group of users that I know reasonably well, to provide a solution to office, I would deploy open source in a heart beat. For something more established, it gets a few levels more complicated.
And people who were using ethereal, or windows, did the upgrade and were done with it. I don't think brand recognition is nearly as big a deal in the software world as you guys are making it out to be. Windows, Office, OSX... they sell because they offer features and usability nobody has rivaled, not because they're made by fortune 500 companies, well maybe a little bit of market cornering here and there, but the opportunity had to initially present itself. People upgrade to ME because it was better than windows 98, and people switched from ethereal to wireshark to get updates and new features, I don't think anybody gave a second thought to the naming of the software.
Corsair & OCZ also happen to sell a lot more SSD's than Intel & Crucial. Pretty sure there's a rule somewhere in sales & marketing that ties higher sales figures to higher acceptable return/failure rate.
--Stat class taught me to question #s & figures presented by random websites.
At least at my school, there were different levels of chemistry: regular, honors, and advanced placement (AP). Most students took AP as a 2nd year class mostly after honors, so ya there's room for those who are interested or not, but I'd also say its a good thing to learn WHY you can't mix bleach and ammonia, rather than someone just telling you it's bad.
On that note where were the parents while all this was going throw consideration and approval... last I checked the school system is funded by tax payer money & is transparent on it's financial needs / wants.
OCZ makes several different product lines of SSDs, each line has it's own quirks, so generalizing OCZ's QA issues isn't accurate. I've always had good luck with the vertex 3s both for myself & people I install them for. I've a SSD die once and it looked identifcal to a spinning disk failure from a chkdsk point of view, can't remember what kind it was, it was either an OCZ, or a Corsair, but I can name a ton of both of those brands that are still going 2-3y+.
10 years of smartphone generations for the government to realize there's the potential for viruses, spyware, and malware on these things as they are in all sense of the word a computer. I'm willing to bet google is now going to regulate the android market a little better, it still depends heavily on the user as to the risk posed to the device, just like with PCs.
I've also got to respectfully disagree with the article on rooting your device, it opens up the potential to load some pretty nifty security tools that help keep you safe in the first place.
Anyways, very fun low-graphics turn based strategy game, only downside I can see is it might be a bit complicated, but it's still fun without understanding a thing about the game & kids have amazed me before on what they can figure out to do.
Megaupload (was) & rapidshare are a mixed bag of stuff with plenty of legit uses. Being new to the internet however... that's just inexcusable on slashdot.
Obama's still a politician, the elections are a circus for politicians to strut their stuff, lots of stuff sounds good in words & on paper, putting it into action is another story. And yes, it's publicly known that there's other entities in play apart from the president that vote on those things, like... the senate.
The internet has freed people, Egypt being a decent example, it's keeping it at that level of freedom that's become the hard part.
The original purpose of the patent system was to protect say Alexander Graham Bell when he invented the phone from marketing it, having big corporate come in and rip off his idea, cheating him out of a fortune and discouraging him from ever contributing to society ever again. That's backwards progressive. It was also almost a century and a half ago when this was relevant, before global economy became a buzz word, before the computer and internet were invented. We're still using this system and it no longer works. I'd like to see patent approvals ask something like how is this relevant to society, in addition to did you come up with it first or not. I'm sure there's room for abuse in my theory, anybody think of anything better?
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I've never been asked what my GPA was... ever, nobody has even tried to dance around it. Has anybody?
Then move somewhere else lol. Or develop more skill sets (reading a book that you retain some of sometimes puts you slightly above people that get paid for that skill basis). Or... hard line you income and don't take jobs you won't be satisfied with, or... if you 're the type of people who can work and look for work... then you've got something I don't, so do it.
References: Countless recruiters calling on a daily basis with relevant and irrelevant job offers.
GPA couldn't have less to do with the real world job market.
Biggest difference probably is how you market yourself, it's not that they're necessarily smarter, it MAY be that they're more up to date of current best practices / patterns... I've met some rather high ranking corporate IT people who had me wondering how they're allowed anywhere near a computer.
So are you, a lot of people come from MS Office backgrounds, I've gotten questions before: how do you do this, I had it set up this way and that... in MS Office, deploying open source solutions risk mainly lies in this, a bunch of disgruntled users who can't do things the way they liked to in MS Office. For a new business with a small closed group of users that I know reasonably well, to provide a solution to office, I would deploy open source in a heart beat. For something more established, it gets a few levels more complicated.
And people who were using ethereal, or windows, did the upgrade and were done with it. I don't think brand recognition is nearly as big a deal in the software world as you guys are making it out to be. Windows, Office, OSX... they sell because they offer features and usability nobody has rivaled, not because they're made by fortune 500 companies, well maybe a little bit of market cornering here and there, but the opportunity had to initially present itself. People upgrade to ME because it was better than windows 98, and people switched from ethereal to wireshark to get updates and new features, I don't think anybody gave a second thought to the naming of the software.
Not sure what users your referring to, you'd have to explain either or to most business users. Now as to for the reason it forked...
"a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence"
Think cyber bullying, but as with most things related to the internet, there's a massive wide grey line here.
Nowadays it's important to differentiate if you're getting married in the game, or in real life :)
Corsair & OCZ also happen to sell a lot more SSD's than Intel & Crucial. Pretty sure there's a rule somewhere in sales & marketing that ties higher sales figures to higher acceptable return/failure rate.
--Stat class taught me to question #s & figures presented by random websites.
At least at my school, there were different levels of chemistry: regular, honors, and advanced placement (AP). Most students took AP as a 2nd year class mostly after honors, so ya there's room for those who are interested or not, but I'd also say its a good thing to learn WHY you can't mix bleach and ammonia, rather than someone just telling you it's bad.
On that note where were the parents while all this was going throw consideration and approval... last I checked the school system is funded by tax payer money & is transparent on it's financial needs / wants.
I actually mean Agility 3, can't say either way on the vertex's besides they sometimes get less eggs on newegg from reviews.
OCZ makes several different product lines of SSDs, each line has it's own quirks, so generalizing OCZ's QA issues isn't accurate. I've always had good luck with the vertex 3s both for myself & people I install them for. I've a SSD die once and it looked identifcal to a spinning disk failure from a chkdsk point of view, can't remember what kind it was, it was either an OCZ, or a Corsair, but I can name a ton of both of those brands that are still going 2-3y+.
In the real world yes... I'd be conflicted to say the least... but THIS IS SLASHDOT!
10 years of smartphone generations for the government to realize there's the potential for viruses, spyware, and malware on these things as they are in all sense of the word a computer. I'm willing to bet google is now going to regulate the android market a little better, it still depends heavily on the user as to the risk posed to the device, just like with PCs.
I've also got to respectfully disagree with the article on rooting your device, it opens up the potential to load some pretty nifty security tools that help keep you safe in the first place.
www.wesnoth.org/
how has this not been posted yet???
Anyways, very fun low-graphics turn based strategy game, only downside I can see is it might be a bit complicated, but it's still fun without understanding a thing about the game & kids have amazed me before on what they can figure out to do.
Megaupload (was) & rapidshare are a mixed bag of stuff with plenty of legit uses. Being new to the internet however... that's just inexcusable on slashdot.
Obama's still a politician, the elections are a circus for politicians to strut their stuff, lots of stuff sounds good in words & on paper, putting it into action is another story. And yes, it's publicly known that there's other entities in play apart from the president that vote on those things, like... the senate.
The internet has freed people, Egypt being a decent example, it's keeping it at that level of freedom that's become the hard part.
Privacy concerns aside.
How do these things perform in weather? ex. Blizzards
I'd hate to wind up in a snow drift in the middle of the road rather than backing up and finding an alt. route... or going home.
The original purpose of the patent system was to protect say Alexander Graham Bell when he invented the phone from marketing it, having big corporate come in and rip off his idea, cheating him out of a fortune and discouraging him from ever contributing to society ever again. That's backwards progressive. It was also almost a century and a half ago when this was relevant, before global economy became a buzz word, before the computer and internet were invented. We're still using this system and it no longer works. I'd like to see patent approvals ask something like how is this relevant to society, in addition to did you come up with it first or not. I'm sure there's room for abuse in my theory, anybody think of anything better?
Has got you covered... some what:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firegloves/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/
Is it just me who's thought it f'in hilarious to be on a friends computer hit a website and get porn based ads & pop-ups? :)
Your post immediately made me think of Ghost in the Shell lol, been a while since I watched that.
Am I the only one who thinks that we need LESS social networking as opposed to oh say, actually meeting and talking to people in person?